Useless shiny metal and stones that only serve to make you look rich. Why? Because other people pay money for it. But it's only "worth" money because other people think it's worth money. A power drill is more useful because it can actually do something. Jewelry doesn't do anything. Diamonds are really abundant, but they are only artificially propped up by diamond sellers. They will charge you like $1k for something, but then if you want to sell it back, they'll only give you a fraction of the price, as a kind of consolation prize, because even they know it's worthless. The scam is getting someone to pay money for it, but it isn't actually worth anything at all.
What can you do with it? Show people that you can make poor financial decisions? Be greedy and vain and materialistic? Pathetic.
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Anonymous2018-12-19 23:09
JEWelry.
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Anonymous2018-12-20 3:27
LEGALIZE OPIATES CHILD PORN AND HATE SPEECH!!!
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Anonymous2018-12-20 3:54
Legalise all speech and victimless crimes, that implicitly legalises all 3, along with things like sharing software.
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Anonymous2018-12-20 4:34
Doesn't this prove that humanity is worthless, since even in the earliest preserved burial sites archeologists and other excavators have found contained jewerly?
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Anonymous2018-12-20 6:16
>>5 Ancient people had more religious/magical/cultural uses of jewelry and it wasn't considered overpriced or part of consumer culture.
Nice cope. Too bad that of course it was all about a representation of status and of course it was the beginning of consumer culture. Think, if an object signifies status then the object becomes the source of status.
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Anonymous2018-12-20 10:08
>>7 >it was the beginning of consumer culture Those newfangled "Paleolithics" and their crazy modern lifestyles. Stones are for tools and spears!
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Anonymous2018-12-20 12:32
>>7 jewlery predates industrial civilisation. It's more like an innovation of agrarian civilisation and culture, which is where the representation of status fits in.