“One fact strikes us at the outset; often one and the same word is...

“One fact strikes us at the outset; often one and the same word is used to designate an abstract idea and a concrete object. The words which in European languages signify material goods, and the straight line, have also the meaning of the moral Good and Right, Justice;
Ta agatha (Greek) goods, wealth; to agathom, the good.
Bona (Latin), goods; bonum (Latin) the good.
Les biens (French) goods; le Bien, the good.
Orthos (Greek), rectum (Latin), derecho(Spanish), droit (French), etc. have the double meaning of being in a straight line and that of Right, Justice.
Here again are other examples chosen in the Greek language: Kalon, arrow, javelin, beauty, virtue; phren, heart, entrails, reason, will; kakos, man of plebeian origin, base, wicked, ugly; kakon, vice, crime. The word kakos contributes to the formation of a series of terms, employed for what is vile and evil; kakke, excrement; kakkia, vice, baseness; kakotheos, impious; kakophonia, unpleasant sound, etc.
The fact is worth attention, although little noticed.” -Lafargue

Value: “wal-
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to be strong."

Strength is not “invisible” or abstract— the Strength of God is manifest in the power that overrides human volition & will— it is not some “invisible abstract” but a concrete description of “God’s material power” over human will & desire etc

To describe the “value” of the dollar is to describe the Strength of US hegemony over global trade which is demonstrated in a material infrastructure of concrete domination over the physical globe.

Value grows out of the barrel of a gun.