Wilde isn't simply griping about materialism—he's identifying a collapse of *judgment*. Price is objective and universal (everyone agrees a coffee costs five dollars), but value requires taste, experience, and the willingness to sit with ambiguity. When you scroll past a photograph of your child to check how many likes it received, you've replaced the irreplaceable with the measurable, which is precisely his point. The tragedy isn't that we're greedy; it's that we've outsourced our ability to know what matters to whatever can be quantified.