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Jewelery's value is as a price tag you can wear. It's not about it being "shiny" as cheaper materials can be made to be just as shiny. And gold is only a price
by stevedekorte 13y ago
Jewelery's value is as a price tag you can wear. It's not about it being "shiny" as cheaper materials can be made to be just as shiny. And gold is only a price tag because it was the best technology for implementing a secure distributed account system. Until bitcoin.
- orblivion 13y ago> Jewelery's value is as a price tag you can wear. That may have been the case at some point, but it's taken on a life of its own, such that people value it for its own sake. Maybe that will leave the culture if gold's price drops, but I think it won't happen all at once. People care about gold specifically, and diamonds specifically, for weddings. For some reason, but it's there. And I use "shiny" as a half-joking way to describe desire for something unto itself.
- dllthomas 13y ago"People care about gold specifically, and diamonds specifically, for weddings." A brilliant piece of marketing by De Beers, that.