• rbos@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    What value? Can’t eat it, makes shitty tools. It’s shiny, but I’m not going to trade ny potatoes for shiny in a survival situation.

    You can starve sitting on a pile of gold.

    For gold to be valuable you still need social stability.

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        8 months ago

        What uses gold when you’re buying/selling potatoes, nobody will think gold is worth anything if society has collapsed it’s just a useless hunk of metal