Clean your Plate! Traded values

Clean your Plate! Traded values:

Simple, general values being transformed.

Take for example, Clean your plate! In early civilized endeavors, there undoubtedly were attempts to exemplify and make mores of situations to make things more easily understood in a sense.

Simply, in "primitive" societies they were grateful just to have anything to eat at any time, anywhere. Likely, most ate what they could until satisfied. There was not much order on what and how much of what is to be consumed. Some of it was discarded for convenience. Not much protocol on it. A little later some attempts were made, where it could, to store or preserve food.

The onus of the value was on simply having something to eat. Sometime later, some  people decided to put protocol on proportions and then to help that, what to serve them on. Most likely before, as some do now, people ate from their hands or leaves or bark, or skin, etc.

For some it was necessary to conserve food, or a choice. Thereafter, proportions became important and even prioritized. This arbitrarily became an embellished value by some and became a central focus. Over time, it became a measured means of exemplifying discipline of eating. Hence, the factor of simply being grateful for obtaining something essential, as in food to eat, is traded to an exalted commodity level of obligation by cleaning one's plate. The emphasis is changed, traded for something other than it was previously. The value of having food is displaced by placing value on plate cleaning as a significant gauge. Perhaps an economic exploitation.

Gold is a natural element made in nature. It has no innate value other than simply being a mineral. In most early civilizations, it is shown as being used and valued just for adornment. There was little if much hoarding of it for commercial or trade value purposes.

Economic value was embellished to it and silver and other elements by which they were simply and widely used elements became hoardable, except in the few remaining "primitive" cultures that use it for adornment. A natural occurring nature with its value traded for some other perspective.

In some cases, some embellished values are arbitrarily devalued. Some times some factors of nature are relinquished from embellishment and other embellished things are downplayed. 

Anyone want to challenge an example of today's value of sterling silverware? So valuable decades ago, a utensil purchased at $45, now junk, melt down.

Note: the material herein does not necessarily reflect the current entropy of societies.