> 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 fo

> 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.