I 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 1

I 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