To pursue non-material wealth

How much of the value in our lives comes out of the opportunity for community efforts in the context of functioning cultural systems? 

These super-structures of possibility are public goods that are given to breaking down under the pressure of market forces and arms length transactions over material goods. 

The functioning of a civil society alters our values not in terms of which material goods we prefer to which but in terms of how much of our lives we want to live in the pursuit of material wealth relative to how much of it we want to use to pursue non-material wealth. 

All those decisions kick in after we have passed the sova point and we are making decisions in the domain of abundance. 

The key question market-based systems need to answer is what do we want to be doing with the surplus, with that part of our existence that has to decide how we occupy ourselves beyond satiation.