I think the understanding that they are not rare and that the price is entirely an extortionary corporate fiction to collect huge profits will influence one's desire to pay the high price.

Like if you buy a gold ring, I suspect its cost will be pretty related to the base price of commodity gold, the labor involved in creating it, and a reasonable markup for the company to survive. But it is too commoditizatized for it to have the super high prices diamonds have. Knowing that diamonds are horribly overpriced will reduce some people's desire to actually buy one. So telling people this helps save people money.