Do you think we value things because they are scarce and not necessarily because we value them for their own traits?

[jennifer_bloom]

Like I was thinking today, if I could have any good looking guy I wanted, I would no longer care how good looking guys were, and would go entirely by personality and intelligence when choosing somebody to date.

When I was a child, I did not have my own money, so I ate what my dad bought me and I loved McDonalds because I could only eat there a few times a year.

Now that I have my own money, and can walk to McDonalds from my house, I don't appreciate McDonalds the way I did when I was a child.

The first time I was exposed to religious Ideas I was amazed at how sacred and compassionate God was. Now that I hear about God multiple times a day, I don't value it as much as I did the first time I heard about the God of the Bible.

[purplepoppy]

Historically yes. Asparagus was valued because it has a very short season of only a few weeks. For meats the liver and heart was valued because there's only one per animal making it something special.

A nice example is welsh gold, it's no better than another countries but it commands a far greater price simply because of it's scarcity.

If you think back to before videos or we has on demand movies people would look forward to seeing certain movies that were only shown at Christmas. It just seems human nature to want to savour rare things even if they're really not that good.

[Xawyx-2]

Yes, you have a very good point, rare things are valued just because there aren't many of them.