Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 个月前As Gold Hits New Record, Some See Warning Signs of Civilizational Collapsewww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square274fedilinkarrow-up1450arrow-down122
arrow-up1428arrow-down1external-linkAs Gold Hits New Record, Some See Warning Signs of Civilizational Collapsewww.newsweek.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 个月前message-square274fedilink
minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 个月前Totally. I was more commenting on the theory of gold having this magical inherent objective value. Which it doesn’t, it’s a commodity like any other. Honestly as a value store, land is probably better.
minus-squareQuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 个月前Land isn’t portable. Gold is durable, portable and compact.
minus-squareadr1an@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 个月前Not a chemist myself but Gold has lots of industrial applications because it doesn’t react to many other atoms or molecules. For example, it doesn’t rust at all. Similar thing goes for platinum. Maybe we should buy the latter…
Totally. I was more commenting on the theory of gold having this magical inherent objective value. Which it doesn’t, it’s a commodity like any other.
Honestly as a value store, land is probably better.
Land isn’t portable. Gold is durable, portable and compact.
Not a chemist myself but Gold has lots of industrial applications because it doesn’t react to many other atoms or molecules. For example, it doesn’t rust at all. Similar thing goes for platinum. Maybe we should buy the latter…