This is the spoilsport answer
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Let's say an alien civilization wanted to liquidate the earth for fair earth market value. Iron and nickel in the core are probably the biggest assets, so ignoring everything else, you'd end up with roughly* $3.4661434e+25 (34 septillion and change). *I probably made a mistake.
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Oh yeah, good point – I hadn't considered the core... but also any alien civilization capable of cracking open the earth and mining the core probably wouldn't care to spend $$ on it...? We'd probably be in the bargain bin; I imagine they'd just take/use the sun. I don't know
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joke answer: all of them. all the dollars. serious answer: no meaningful answer without a space economy with other worlds. it's like me asking me what is the $ value of me, if I were living in solitary estimate: global world economy is $100T. Estd world value b/w $1Q & 10Q
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but again value to whom? value is not a fundamental force like mass, value is entirely socially constructed and epistemically relative. nothing has intrinsic value, it only exists given certain human institutions.
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I think you ought to define the question better. Do you mean world’s physical assets? Digital assets? Ideas?
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Even If it is physical assets, the question becomes hard to answer because imagine if everyone decides to liquidate at once.
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Just try listing it on eBay and see what the winning bid is. That ought to be a close enough approximation.
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People freak out about US debt. I'm like- sell off a small portion of Montana and we are good. The world has a huge value- especially if you present value everyone’s future earnings and IP
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