Comment on Is gold investing a scam?

rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Let’s be honest though, in a complete societal collapse (not likely to ever happen) if I had sandwiches, and you had a block of gold. Your good is worthless unless someone else is willing to trade for it. You come with gold, say it’s worth something, I say meh, maybe 15 pounds for one sandwich, you say no way, you grow weak through starvation I say 20 pounds, you say no way, grow weaker and I say 30 pounds, you say I only had 15, you die of starvation and I bury your currentpy worthless gold somewhere in case it eventually has value again.

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  • amorpheus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe someone else would see it differently and pound your head in for 10 pounds. That frees up the sandwich and anything else.

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  • paper_moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So zoidberg made out like a bandit!

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The whole time I just pictured myself having a bunker full of in ground freezers with hidden solar panels and they are just chock full of shite gas station sandwiches to ensure they last 50 years

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    True, in total collapse gold isn’t worth much. However, total collapse isn’t very likely. Across all civilization collapses, it’s never come to that point

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    • Klear@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Also sandwiches are a terrible way to store value.

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      • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Also sandwiches are a terrible tasty way to store value.

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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah, bit of land staked off, 5 goats, 5 cows, 15 chickens, fencing and 100 acres of agriculture would do you much better.

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  • cv_octavio@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Something something you can eat money something.

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  • phed@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wait, what kinda sammich we talkin’?

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Toasted thin brioche with garlic butter, light smather of roasted pepper jelly, prescuttio wrapping muenster cheese topped with heated salami and pepperoni, so when it is moistened by the juices of the Italian meats but stills holds the crunchy, airy feeling in the bite.

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    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A nice M.L.T. - a mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe…

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