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Originally Posted by Ahldagor
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is you're assumption based on that people would still use a current valuing system based upon a diamond's size? (ie because we do it this way now there's no way that people could do it another way in the past or in the future) a system could be made that would make it as easy as the gold one that you mentioned, and it still would be the same behavior that is in operation.
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"A system could be made". Are you implying that you could somehow impose an artificial value system on diamonds? Good luck with that, lol. Diamond value vs size is the way it is because you can't just combine 2 small diamonds to make a larger diamond. People understand this and the natural distribution of diamond size has great influence on the value. If all diamonds naturally came out of the ground with the exact same size (and then were only broken down when the sum of value of the smaller diamonds exceeded the value of the larger one), then you could have a system as you suggest. As that is not how it works in the natural world, your system wouldn't work. Unless you somehow got everyone to change their perception of value, which seems like a Herculean task.