• repungnant_canary@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yeah, and it’s expensive because it’s …well, expensive. It’s not any less abundant than some other metals or more difficult to extract. We just decided it’s gonna be expensive

    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I mean, we didn’t just arbitrarily decide that gold would be expensive, we decided it would be expensive because it’s pretty. It seemed like a good idea a few thousand years ago.

    • Liz
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      6 months ago

      So a gold mine is both literal and figurative, eh?