Time
Time is the only asset we have that is 100% equal with another human being.
It has many denominations, and some may have more overall, or less overall.
But in the moments given now, we are equal.
It is also the asset that completely follows the market of our life and becomes instantanously worthless to both ourselves and others at the same moment.
It is also the asset that defines worth, but also defines choice of value.
1000 moments of time, invested into a skill, and given in a unit,
carries those 1000 moments into that unit.
The choice for the amount of value in that decision, is up to the individual who carries it and the person to receives it.
In a strange way, both the person giving and receiving in that instance, chooses the value or respect given/demanded for it.
I believe it is fundamental measure and resource.