Socrato: It's not that safety itself has a value but it does produce value. In fact, it produces measurable value in the form of spending money.
Rockamellon: Again, I can not fault your logic, Socrato. Please continue.
Socrato: I do not want to launch into a monologue, my friend. Perhaps you can try again to name something that has value but is not monetized.
Rockamellon: The family has great value to all people and surely no one can put a price on a sense of family.
Socrato: Can't they though? I have just seen the other day the price of raising a child, side by side with the amount that can be saved by pooling your monetary resources with a life partner. Surely these are ways of monetizing family, yes?
Rockamellon: Inded, they do seem to be.
Socrato: Why do you hesitate, friend? Are these not ways of ascribing dollar values to the idea of family?
Rockamellon: I hesitate because I think there is something more to it than that.
Socrato: Then listen to your hesitation. What more do you think there is to family?
Rockamellon: Well, there is cooperation. Family members help one another - support each other through the trials of life.
Socrato: Yes, of course. The parents pay for the children's food and clothing as they grow up then the children turn around and pay for their parent's care in their twilight years.
Rockamellon: Again, you've assigned it all a monetary value. What about family members simply helping one another without charge? What about the loyal daughter who takes care of her aging mother?
Socrato: Is not labor a quintessentially marketable item? Time is money, as they say.
Rockamellon: You may make it so I can be a heartless businessman after all, my dear Socrato.
Socrato: If that is the way the logic leads us, then let it be so.
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