What sets the value is what the buyer is willing to pay for it. Price being the measure and expression of value of an item.
Go out an attempt to sell apples at $5 per apple and see if you get any takers.
The events were the ones described if you can see what is in front of you, but thank you for justifying my whole posting.
"You have to understand Neo, most of these people are not ready to
be unplugged, and many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." ~ Morpheus / The Matrix movie trilogy.