There is quantifiable theory of value, it's energy. Money is just an abstraction of energy at its heart. Money is energy, always, physically. Energy quantifies what you can do with money.
If we express all money and all things as energy, since all things have energy content, we start to see energy flows. For example, try converting the money you pay for your electricity bills to energy at the market rates of energy and you will find the net flow of energy in KWhrs is not from the utilities energy supplier to you, but the other way round, you supply more energy to them than they supplied to you, so the net flow of energy is from you to them. They are not enriching you, they are impoverishing you. This is the way it has to be for them to make profit from you. Then to replenish the energy they took from you by profit, you have to rob someone else by making energy profit from them, and in turn they need to do the same, Peter robs Paul all the way back to the planet, which is the only thing that can provide more energy out for a little put in, and that energy taken from the planet has to come with a lot more lost to heat, and the energy in profit becomes heat when the end product is burned or consumed, hence we see the real reason for the planetary temperature rise.
The only antidote to that is for all to switch to the energy of the sun, and to stop robbing one another of energy, just distribute to one another fairly so as to enrich one another, and then finally we will see a world not destined to burn.