A new book about humanity's obsession with gold
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Re: A new book about humanity's obsession with gold
#2I've read elsewhere that one of gold's biggest virtues as a store of value on planet earth is that it isn't so rare as to be useless, but it's rare enough that it functions as currency or high value storage. A goldilocks material for the purpose of wealth transfer and storage.
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#3Is this an ad for shady "buy gold" investment scams?
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#4https://archive.is/ShyUM
Article is a brief review of the book "The Secret History of Gold" by Dominic Frisby.
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#5Name one thing in the universe which is better than gold? Tip: You can't.
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#6Name one thing in the universe which is better than gold? Tip: You can't.
Iron. For the purpose of building bridges.
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#7Name one thing in the universe which is better than gold? Tip: You can't.
Diamonds? You can use them in a drill bit.
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#8It is interesting that gold was able to retain its value after the industrial revolution. It could have gone the way of aluminum, once twice as valuable as gold, but now used in disposable drink containers. At the time of the alchemists, there was no way to know that some metals were actually distillable from common rocks and others genuinely rare and impossible to manufacture with even quite advanced technology.
EDIT: Aluminum itself may not be the best counterexample to gold as it was not discovered until the industrial revolution was well underway.
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#10Name one thing in the universe which is better than gold? Tip: You can't.
Oxygen