What determines value and worth? Practicality? Sentimentality? Wealth on a finical level? All three? How do we find desk toys, money, people, expensive and frivolous things worth so much if they have no use? What do you do with something that has little to no worth in all aspects of the word?

That's a question with a lot of answers. What are you asking exactly? What determines the value of currency? Of novelty items? Of memorabilia? General goods? You're asking a very vague question and have to be more specific.

Why are expensive things so valuable if they have no practical use? Why are we sentiment? Why are people so valuable if they're completely worthless to most in all aspects? What do you do with something that is completely worthless to you?

Value of things like sports memorabilia, for example of expensive, is because they are artifacts related in some way to the person who made history. For example, say you had a baseball hit by Jackie Robinson in a record breaking game of his worth $2,000. The value isn't in the ball, but the legacy surrounding the ball and its involvement versus how many can say they have a ball hit by Jackie Robinson in a famous game of baseball? Very very very few.

If you're asking about the good of gems and metals, the value of gems and metals is based on supply and demand. The less available and the higher in demand it is, the higher it is in price and worth. Say a federal reserve filled with much of a nation's gold is bombed and the entire stock of gold is destroyed, the likely result is the value of gold in the nation will soar through the roof.

The value of a company is based on profitability and where the company is perceived to be heading. Say the head of Facebook or the chairmen of Microsoft are assassinated, if their company is a publicly traded company, you're likely to see their stocks drop detrimentally in the market as people sell their shares panicking over the company's potential hard times ahead in lieu of their deaths.

If you're asking why are high end fashion items so expensive, you said the answer in the question, it's a high end item in fashion. When it goes out of fashion and ceases to be the 'in' thing, it will drop in value. Look at the iPhones and iPods from about 7-8 years ago, no one wants them compared to how many want the newest in trend gadgets.

If you're trying to be an armchair Nihilist going 'Why are people valuable if we're all worthless' then I'd say stop thinking you're too cool for school and just enjoy things more often.

Dude but wait, why does the value of gold go through the roof if things cannot be destroyed? The thing is why doesn't the thing that the thing becomes replace the thing and take the things equal worth?

But why do we care about something as frivolous as fashion? How much could a person be worth, anyway? And what do you do with something that has no worth?

Nevermind, I'll try other questions. What is worth a lot to you personally? Why? What, to you, is completely worthless and has no place in the world? And why.

What? I'm speaking in the sense of, say a nuclear bomb or a bomb or fire with enough power to destroy a gold reserve destroyed the gold. The value of gold elsewhere in the nation would take a hike because there's much less of it now. (I don't know if Fort Knox is still a big depository of gold, but say it was targeted by a nuke or some kind of really powerful fire melted the entirety of it (highly improbable, but just roll with me here) then the reserves of US gold elsewhere in the US or value of foreign gold held in the US will see a spike in value)

@ Lexicon- Now I see what kind of questions you're playing at and it's not funny. Here's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wtcn_MkKL8. Those overly nihilistic questions are really obnoxious. What do you mean 'what do you do with something that has no worth'? You keep it or you throw it away.

It's up to a person whether they want to care about fashion, some people are happy with buying cheap clothes (or going full nudist) and others like spending their money on more expensive clothes, whether to flaunt their wealth or if they think it makes them look better. A person's worth, well humans aren't worth money (a lot better that way, people used to be worth money and that led to things like slavery) but their worth as a person depends entirely on their status/importance. A loner who died and went 11 years without their corpse being discovered or death even being noticed wasn't really important or worth anything to anyone, but if that guy who everyone likes (genuinely likes, not just some popular kid everyone forgets about) were to die then people would get upset and miss that person, that gives him more worth and value.

I was making a joke.

You're right, they're really serious questions. So why are you avoiding them? What is worth the most to people? What is completely worthless to them? Is it a bad thing to keep things that are worthless?

They might be serious, but they still come off as pretentious armchair pseudo-philosophical attempts.

1. I'm not avoiding them, just being honest, this line of questioning is treading into armchair territory here.

2, Different people value different things. Heroin means the most to a heroin addict, soda to another person and the latest crazes to another.

3. Worthlessness is subjective as well. Broken phones are still valuable as data mines and can be scraqed off (Which is what companies that buy your broken and unused phones do. They make a profit off the components in that phone.)

4. If they're not hurting you or anyone around you, no.

Okay. Is there a problem with armchair questions, or is it the person asking them? And at what level is something worth the world to someone?

Not to mention what someone finds worthy will change over time as well.. an episode of Scooby doo was worth way more than the half hour invested in watching it -I'd look forward to Saturday morning all week because of it, whereas these days I put more worth into say.. six, or pizza.

actually, having six while eating pizza and watching Scooby doo probably tops the list.

great.., now I'm hungry, and horny.. and want to watch cartoons.

at one point just getting outta Afghanistan with all my wiggly-bits still attached was worth the world to me.

Worth is something that is assigned to everything, including other people and currency itself.