Wherever things are measured in money

To be entirely frank it seems to me that wherever you have private property and all things are measured in money it's all but impossible for a community to be just or prosperous, unless you consider that justice can function where the best things belong to the worst people, or that there can be happiness where everything is divided up among very few – and even those few derive little benefit while the remainder are thoroughly wretched.

Thomas More, Utopia (Penguin Classics, 2012) pp. 51-52