Can a person's worth to society be quantified?

[Insula Dei]

Only if you define 'worth to society' in a way that has very little to do with 'worth'.

[Insula Dei]

Of course it can--anything can be quantified

I think hyper-rationalism like this is misguided.  Some things aren't quantitative, and to try to make you are asking for distortion and neglect of something important.    A person's worth to society is a fuzzy concept outside of a particular tradition about it.  You can limit your definition of worth to things that can be quantified, and limit your definition of society to some discrete, static entity in a transactional relation to an individual.  But that just answers the question with a tautology. The only thing you are measuring then is the extent of your own model.

Good post.