> Me too, but we do have to remember that that's probably because we were raised in societies that don't value these perks over cash. In societies where that is

> Me too, but we do have to remember that that's probably because we were raised in societies that don't value these perks over cash. In societies where that is not the case, non-monetary perks can be many many times more valuable than abstract cash. Societies don't value things: they force people to pretend to value things. "Society values X" is only a valuable figure of speech as long as it actually approximates, "People in society freely value X for their own publicly understood reasons."