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Judging and quantifying demand is not the same thing as materialism.

I was responding to this statement:

> Everything that is desired takes resources to get

Kennedy made the good point (as others have, less eloquently) that there are many things that are desired that neither take resources to get nor are measured by conventional metrics.

I think our point of agreement could be summed up as: "Evertything has a price and only the cheapest things can be bought for money."

Hmm. I think I'd agree only to the second half of that. Just considering Kennedy's examples alone there are many things that cannot be bought at any price: consider the joy of a child's play or the integrity of public officials.

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