• theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    It’s price only fluxuates based on availability, and we’re on a finite planet. The real problem would be environmental regulations regarding gold recycling at that point.

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      22 hours ago

      We just discovered possibly the largest deposit of gold ever, just a few days ago. You could not have picked a worse time to push for a gold standard

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        13 hours ago

        Man, gold bugs are dumb as shit, aren’t they? I haven’t run into them in the wild very often since cryptocurrency took off, but the Ron Paul brigade used to be all over. At least tankies agree that the means of production ought to be seized by the workers (however bad they are at working towards that goal in practice).

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      1 day ago

      That is not how mineral wealth works.

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          24 hours ago

          Irrelevant. Gold has a use, and we haven’t dug up all of it. Its price would fluctuate like any other mineral. Practical asteroid mining would crash the entire economy, but even without, gold used for any practical purpose besides money would put pressure on the demand curve that’s never the same from day to day.

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      23 hours ago

      Like a new vein of ore discovered in some far off land?

      Yeah, that’s what caused a lot of wars, and financial bubbles.