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Going to go big here:

Trade has intrinsic worth.  If both parties benefit from the trade, or both perceive themselves to have benefitted, trade's purpose has been accomplished.  It's not about the things that are exchanged, but the people doing the exchanging.  People enjoy trading.

Trading is fun.  It makes you feel good when you make a "good" trade.  What I mean by this is a trade in which you know you have benefitted and so has the other person.  Or at least you know you didn't try to rip them off, which I think is an awful feeling that I'd never want.  Why is that?  I don't know.  I don't really question it.

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Hello, new to the community, so please forgive / correct me if I'm making obvious missteps here.

I think you're viewing this the wrong way, evidenced by the fact that you have actually asked two separate but related questions. First, is there scientific evidence for benefits of meditation? And then second, are there good reasons for a typical reader to invest time and effort into practice?

The first question is asking for scientific evidence, and you seem like you've set a pretty high bar here. This leads me to believe that you've pretty much decided that meditation is fraudulent and want to be convinced otherwise. I don't think this will... (read more)