More mentions that “while they eat from pottery plates and glass bowls, well made but cheap, their chamber pots and all their humblest vessels, for used in common rooms and even in private homes, are made of gold and silver” (611), which emphasizes the utility of an object as its decisive value in the utopian society. Although these materials are revered as beautiful and as valuable currency in Europe, More explains that they are ultimately useless, and thus describes utopians as placing far more value in far more useful materials, namely iron. Without this idolatry of precious metals, utopians would have no reason to keep them if the state were to need them for any reason.