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There are a lot of concrete economic goods that don't have value on a deserted island. Iron ore, gold, or really any natural resource that requires a lot of pro
by cortesoft 5y ago
There are a lot of concrete economic goods that don't have value on a deserted island. Iron ore, gold, or really any natural resource that requires a lot of processing will be useless on a deserted island.
In fact, the entire point of the "move things" category in the article is that things have different value in different places.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoGold surely has value as it’s the most malleable of the metals. Having a gold cooking pot is a vast increase in wealth on a deserted island compared to no cooking pot. If you put a bit of imagination a lot of random things can have value in an extreme enough situation.