Can buy	Can't buy
Brand clothes	Self-esteem
Fancy mobile phone	Friends
Strong bodyguards	Sense of security
Best surgeon	Own genetic material
Subordinates	Respect
Top school	Wisdom
Internet access	A meaningful improving network
Religious symbols	Realistic introspection
Judgment through corruption	Honesty and integrity
Services of a prostitute	Physical and emotional intimacy

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you can still buy your happyness, your are still down the pyramid.You can buy your way up (but it's not necesseary) only to a certain point.

To do

• add symbols or proxy for values that one can buy to demonstrate the possession of a quality
  • i.e. buying physical good that shows you are at level N+1 rather than you current N
    • examples virtual-economy.org , luxury goods, ...
• order the table to follow the pyramid order, use the same colors
• You're Not Your Fucking Khakis, Fight Club
• What money can't buy by Michael Walzer
  • Money and Commodities, excerpt from Spheres of Justice
• not that findings in cognitive science seems to show that re-wiring, even at the neurological level, might have occurred to the point that inferences from older animals become inaccurate.
  • "We've got emotions backwards" point #2 of Your Brain at Work by David Rock

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