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There have been plenty of stories of hollow gold bars and, true or not, they've been trending again lately. Gold hasn't always or everywhere been real money, I
by daodedickinson 6y ago
There have been plenty of stories of hollow gold bars and, true or not, they've been trending again lately.
Gold hasn't always or everywhere been real money, I've personally worked on an archeology site where I sifted out a tiny shell bead with an even tinier hole punched in it so it could attached to a string like ancient Chinese coins and so on.
I once read a claim that J.P. Morgan said something like money is only worth the character of the person who wields it.
I feel more like interactions with other people are more precious than precious metals.
If the dollar hyperinflates, some people will go into bunkers. I'd maybe starve or hide... I don't have a plan, I'm way behind on stuff as it is.
- Qasaur 6y agoThere have absolutely been cases in history where other forms of "money" have been used, but in a long enough timescale of a civilisation, gold and silver are organically adopted as money due to their unique properties that make them suited for it. Fiat, shell beads, and other forms of currency are exceptions to the rule.
- daodedickinson 6y agoI dunno, I feel like Potosí being the highest population city in the Spanish Empire in the 1600s, even larger than Madrid, even though its elevation was about 13,000 feet, even though Denver's elevation is only about 5,000 something feet high, suggests an inorganic impetus, an illogical fetish for silver
- ribble 6y agoyou feel this, you feel that - your feelings are not facts.
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