The tendency to equate outward wealth with inner worth means that inequality colours our social perceptions.
But equally, the fact that any chump with a laptop and a computer science degree can launch a company without having to convince anyone else of its worth, means we also end up with society-harming nonsense like Trapster and Baby Shaker and Cheatr – sorry, Girlfriend Tracker.
The relativistic climate of judgment when it comes to the arts, today – where everyone's opinion is valid – combined with an overreliance on economic value as a proof of worth, means we are handing over the valuing of art to the market.
Pete McDonough, a spokesman for the governor, said that the higher worth meant local governments needed to contribute less new money to cover the cost of pension benefits.
What does worth mean to you?
Around the same time as the clampdown, 1,175kg of the drug – more than one million grams worth – meant for export to the UK, Australia and the US was seized at a chemical plant in Maharashtra.
For the purposes of analyses, responses to questions on well-being were dichotomised to indicate poor scores as approximately >1 SD below the mean (MWB, mean 27.49, SD 5.05, low <22; LS, mean 7.86, SD 1.79, low <6; life worth, mean 8.05, SD 1.81, low <6; trust, mean 5.65, SD 2.57, low <3).
Next, using a Likert scale of agreement from 1 5, participants rate the extent to which this reason was caused by internal versus external factors (themselves or others), specific versus global factors (has an impact on all areas or this specific situation), and stable versus unstable factors (will persist or not) and the extent to which it reflects their self-worth (means they are flawed).
Drugs worth £10,000 means five years.
A theft worth £12.60 means the taxpayer will spend over two grand to keep Mulholland behind bars.
A deal back in March worth £500m means Surrey's doctors, nurses, porters and physios no longer work for the NHS but for Richard Branson.
