Maybe the only substance is the illusion of its existence? Something along the lines of Nietzsche's we will not stop believing in God as we believe in grammar?
Curtiss
> Is there even a shred of evidence that value is a substance?
> Or that labor is a substance? I thought western metaphysics,
> sociology etc. got over the Aristotelian/Spinozist ontology of
> substance with the advent of relativity theory, quantum theory
etc.......