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I guess a $30,000 car that will leave you with nearly nothing after several years also has no value? How about a $5000 vacation with your family? How about a great bottle of wine? Many, many things we choose to value enough to invest in are temporary. That is not a useful criteria.

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> a $30,000 car that will leave you with nearly nothing after several years also has no value?

It has metal and plastic, assembled in parts that you can sell for a total amount that will be surprisingly high, or that can be sold for scrap metal, or driven until the end of days, or or or... It's obvious that it has some sort of value, however low - it is a thing made of resources in the real world. You can argue about the price, but you can quantify it in so many different ways (weight, dimensions, speed, consumption, age, etc etc etc).

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