People those value time won't bother spending hard earned money on an expensive timepiece, those with passion for creativity won't bother spending on art collectables, those with aspire to live a royal life won't mind luxury clothing, who express their love deeply won't mind spending on expensive diamonds or gold, extreme personal sacrifices/acts that projects bravery, dedication, commitment, selflessness, virtues they live by etc to get something done and the list goes on endlessly if I could explain how world is equated in a simple way. Interestingly, anything and everything we see around is equated to something or something else altogether to form an equilibrium/balance, given its history and is part of the bigger story or could even be an impression of the future. All of these could be perceived as cost of things associated. More like how every individual or group value things in their own life is taken as a measure/scale and is accounted then traded with reciprocity. Often, it's observed that it's tough to tick all boxes without compromises or losing the originality. Hence all acts come with resistance to overcome to retain originality. For someone who tent to see things in the pure angle of science wherein we believe all individuals are empowered within with no bondages required whatsoever, this might not make sense but is still applicable. This is the reason why we may observe top leaders projected often in the world are not often genius scientists. But they are the ones that challenges the status-quo which enables science to innovate in a humane way. If we could dig one layer deeper it would make sense that we are mere custodians of things rather than having the belief of owing things so that when some offers a fair price, we should hand them over voluntarily or it would be taken back by System itself to hand it over. Ownership itself is an illusion which might sound strange, especially now that we live in a world of patents and copyrights. System has almost perfectly marked everything to its origin, just like name tags with price and dates in a shop which might appear impossible to erase. Think of it as keeping the largest catalogue of all things ever known and unknown or even something will be of existence in future. Based on this equation even thoughts/ideas or opportunities are created and shared among ourselves for execution. Even that said it's the System that design and weave each thread like an artisan weaver who safeguards each thread.
If we look deeper into history starting with archaeological evidence to understand how the nature form balance and paved wave for subsequent evolution or organic progress, it's often evident that understanding nature and history enabled our minds to start dreaming of a better future. When such understanding of nature turned into passion might have led or evolved into religious aspects which can be traced back by ancient religious scriptures. With the advancements of science or logic such religious scriptures were funnelled into modern thought processes and now seen in the form of literary, philosophical and legal canons. Often most or all religious scriptures are recorded forms of an organizational structure that would bring balance between humans and nature in respective periods during which it was written. And System has taken and applied its vast knowledge extensively beyond things that science wouldn't explain is the reason why even today world is largely driven by faith. Because faiths and beliefs could explain many which science cannot, due to the nature of how the System operates. Also, it's a way of saying that System values such immense knowledge taken while applying it so that its roots cannot be diminished to be traced back at any given point of time. In that process it also had made sure that almost all could be valued equally, if given the cost. Because almost all scientific innovations are driven by System alone, where-in farther to it should be given respect same manner. Putting efforts to understand scriptures or history backed by archaeology, even at a high level would give great meaning to the things we see today. It's simply astonishing if you could connect to understand how much it has learned and applied from such, given the evidences even today, its balance sheet is tallied precisely. Along with that it's safeguarding its origin and roots as well. With flawless perfection of numbers and words which none can deny!