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Unfortunately, money is not and cannot be a universal system for representing value. There are some things whose value cannot be summed up by any such system.
Integrity, for example, is proverbially a thing which can be sold but never bought. Its utility comes from its inability to be exchanged for something else and retain its value.
The idea that everything of value can be converted into a generic and interchangeable medium is incompatible with the concept of value itself.
Integrity is a virtue. It is defined with respect to a value. Virtues cannot be maximized - they are a mean between extremes.
If you have two goods and think you can't compare them, consider the situation where you have to choose between them.