Value and price are only loosely connected. Apart from resent history where we've made lots of it dirty, everyone has pretty much always had this highly valuabl

Value and price are only loosely connected. Apart from resent history where we've made lots of it dirty, everyone has pretty much always had this highly valuable commodity delivered to them at no price. Where people here are criticizing the article for its hyperbolic "everyone would be a billionaire!" rhetoric, it's not because we don't believe the metals are valuable, it's because the article conflates price with value.