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Probably due to the fact that those assets aren't as transferable as currency is. The same argument could be made for gallons of milk, while it is a metric to measure someone's wealth, milk is not a good money metric since milk expires.

Most folks don't even think about price outside of their local currency

Because, if they did, they'd be shocked that their net worth had been dropping, not growing, in many cases.

Because prices are given in the local "money"