Is the Money Value of a Man Zero?

“Of all things in this world, people are the most precious”, declared the World Population Conference, Bucharest, 1974, in the World Population Plan of Action [1974] which it adopted by consensus in its solemn closing plenary meeting. If this is not considered to be a void phrase, but rather as either an a priori assumption which serves as a justification for certain recommendations included in the World Plan of Action, or as one of the final conclusions of the considerations which led to this plan, then it seems worthwhile to verify the statement and to try to actually assess the value of people.