Economic realities really aren't.   So let's separate the value from the money and call value what it truly is, something that may or may not have a stable cost, and not confuse value with the always fluctuating monetary cost.

So it's not longer necessary to be rich in order to have everything, only lots of friends.  Which makes for a good system, where we don't have to waste so much inherently (so that someone can have 5 houses sitting empty while living only in the 6th).  But some toys are truly expensive, so it's also maybe necessary to sometimes make a lot of money, ahh, the dilemma.