• Malyca@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Show it to me? All I see is numbers on a screen. Where’s the gold to back it up. No? Then no trillionare.

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      6 hours ago

      Tbf, gold is mostly only valuable as a social construct like cash or the numbers on the screen.

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          6 hours ago

          No. Food has inherent value. A tool has inherent value. Kindness has inherent value. Gold has value in its practical applications but it’s dollar value is largely because it’s pretty and kind of rare.

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      7 hours ago

      You know that wine with the gold leaf in it? Geldbrau? I forget the name, the name isn’t important for purposes of this conversation. Well I hear tha all he lets his children drink, with the hopes that when he decides to use one as a donor he can say he got the fancy blood eh the gold flake.