Of course there's no one set of dollar values for most items. They very much depend on a context. But in a particular, well-defined context, you can very much convert both Statue of Liberty and NAFTA to dollars and sum them up to something that makes sense in that context.
> Why did the drunken man look under the streetlight for his keys? "Didn't loose them here, but that's where the light is"
Well, drunk people tend to have problems calculating expected value.
In dollars. It's literally what currency is for.
Of course there's no one set of dollar values for most items. They very much depend on a context. But in a particular, well-defined context, you can very much convert both Statue of Liberty and NAFTA to dollars and sum them up to something that makes sense in that context.
> Why did the drunken man look under the streetlight for his keys? "Didn't loose them here, but that's where the light is"
Well, drunk people tend to have problems calculating expected value.