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What something costs when nobody's selling and nobody's buying.
means The value or merit something has, measured in what it deserves rather than what it's tagged at.
from From Old English 'weorþ,' meaning valuable or worth, deeply rooted across the Germanic languages — related to German 'wert' and Dutch 'waard.' The deeper root likely connects to a Proto-Germanic word meaning 'to become' or 'to turn into,' a possible nod to how worth is something that accrues or turns out, rather than something fixed from the start.
- etymology
- old english wierth, kin to worthy, not worthless
- market truth
- only real at the moment of actual exchange
- self-worth trap
- the one price you can't comparison shop for
- net vs gross
- what remains after subtracting what it cost you