It’s all relative and decreases exponentially the further from the person you get. Value ~= (sentimental value) + (entertainment value) + (financial value) + (

It’s all relative and decreases exponentially the further from the person you get. Value ~= (sentimental value) + (entertainment value) + (financial value) + (time value) time value being how much time you add to my life, so someone inventing a vaccine has high value to lots of people who aren’t friends. It’s very fashionable to say everyone is priceless as you say, but this simply isn’t true. A better way to phrase it might be “everyone is worth the access to goods that are cheap enough to make for everyone, but aren’t available to everyone because of profit motives”. People typically only demand a right to something when someone else has it, or at least demand equal access. People are more or less ok with dying on a waitlist for a transplant when the rich are thought to die at the same rate.