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Originally Posted by gmw
... and people may continue to claim their ownership rights on worthless property for their own reasons.
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Their own reasons is that it has a value
for them.
That was the example of Tom Sawyer supposed to explain, but maybe the glass collars and mirrors used by Colombus to exchange them for gold is better - each object had a lower value for the owner than the new things they acquired. They imprinted a value to these objects.
Or is this a better example:
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!