When you realise that water divining is an unreliable method of finding water, you turn away from it, if you want to find water. And so when you realise that the market is an unreliable measure of value, you turn away from it, if you want to have true beliefs about what really matters.
The market pronounces philosophy worthless. But this is no more than a water diviner saying ‘there is no water here’. They would not know if there were when there is, or were not when there is not, and so what use is their pronouncement?
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