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I am not smart

I am not smart enough to know how to value - 1. Relationships (the human kind) 2. Asset Classes (fancy word for defining everything from Barrel of Crude to Pork Bellies to Gold Bars to Diet Supplements to Cash - in dollars or yen or pounds or rupees to a bottle of Coca Cola or the company's stock or bond or derivative of any of the above) 3. Longevity (time span expected on the planet with faculties intact) 4.  Miscellaneous items (house I live in; cars I drive; food that I eat, fashion or things in haute etc.) You see I am smart enough to know that value of something is always relative to some other event or interaction which I may or may not be able to influence.  So trying to pin down this ephemeral idea is plain stupid IMHO. People trade variety of assets daily based on their perception of what others might think the value of that asset may be a year from now; a week from now or even an hour from now.  That is to say that they acknowledge that nobody rea...