Societies are the mechanism used to pass down historical accounts and ingrain in future generations the value of current cultural practices. The only way you have a functional state is with a current society of people who advocate, educate, and lead us towards its replication and expansion on behalf of future generations.

Great job of explaining that with your previous statement. /S

There’s more to life than its spot price at auction.

Not in the society you explained! I’d rather take the pretense away.