Presents are for giving as well as receiving and that gives us pleasure as well. We have to buy presents because someone has to pay for the materials that are used and the labour to design them and manufacture them and put the pieces together and then transport them, and market them and give the shopkeeper a profit so that he can afford to stock them and so on.
Gold is one, diamonds are another.
Diamonds have an industrial use and we can produce any amount of diamonds for industrial consumption. We don t have to dig them out of the ground. We can also manufacture diamonds large enough for decorative purposes as good as those that we dig up and if we put onto the market all the diamond rings that are no longer used the price would fall by a thousand per cent. Diamonds would no longer be a girl s best friend. Smiles, laughs, good temper, kind remarks, a helping hand, a willingness to listen, our interest.