Do sets of states of energy have an equivalent value in a labour/investment credit system?

This paragraph implies as much:

The Obama administration says insurers can provide birth control for free because contraception reduces costs for them overall by preventing expensive-to-cover pregnancies, as well as reducing the risk of ovarian cancer.

“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.” — H.L. Mencken

“The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.” — Robert Jackson

“The word ‘good’ has many meanings.  For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.” — G.K. Chesterton

“The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizen to give to the other.” — Voltaire

“If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.” — Wilson Mizner

“I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.” — Dorothy Parker