Comment on Is gold investing a scam?

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Starstarz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a person who has an abnormal number of bottlecaps for hobby reasons, thank you for making me feel rich! Also, why would anyone else want these?

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  • breakcore@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think they’re referencing the game Fallout where bottlecaps are used as currency

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  • SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s almost certainly a joke but bottlecaps in a post civilization society would make a pretty decent currency, more so than gold.

    They’re light, easy to carry, hard to reproduce and therefore scarce. They’re also useless for anything else. So if you happened to have a lot of caps laying around they might find their way to becoming a currency.

    Gold is heavy, requires a lot of work to make it useful as a standard, and has other practical uses. Caps are actually better.

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    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but making them isn’t complicated just medieval smelting is needed which is basically the iron ages

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      • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s the crimping and the precision shape that’s hard to replicate, you need a press.

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      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think they’re talking about plastic bottle caps.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We homebrewers will be the thousandaires of the end times!

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, considering the fact that numerous pre-modern cultures relied on (diluted) alcohol as their main drink since water was too dirty to drink safely without mixing it in with wine/beer/whatever, and that a lot of people would use alcohol to cope with te hard times that might actually be a good skill to have in the scenario of large amounts of infrastructure becoming unusable. (modern knowledge of germ theory & boiling drinking water would probably make it a lot more useless, but I bet you could find people willing to trade supplies with you for a nice drink.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

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  • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, for one thing, the supply of googly eyes will run out and you will have to adapt.

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• MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re forgetting the crows that like shiny things

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Make a bunch of shiny trinkets, train a gigantic murder of crows to steal food & supplies and attack on command, profit.

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