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Elon musk just became a trillionaire. Toughts?
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Show it to me? All I see is numbers on a screen. Where's the gold to back it up. No? Then no trillionare.
Tbf, gold is mostly only valuable as a social construct like cash or the numbers on the screen.
As is anything with "value".
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.
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.