Comment on "Oh wow a kryptonite radiation machine, I volunteer Superman to go inside! Doesn't feel so good does it?"

sundray@lemmus.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• rainwall@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In Supes defense, he could just fly out to a gold asteroid and knock a chunk off to pay for it himself.

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  • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The value of minerals is based on their scarcity (or companies agreeing to price-fix *cough* ~diamonds~ *cough* ). If Superman brought a large chunk of gold back to Earth, it would upset the market value of gold, thus devaluing the chunk he found as well as all gold on the planet.

    You can’t just “print money.” That’s how you get hyperinflation. Same goes for rare earth minerals; bring home more and the value for all of them globally is reduced, creating a hyperinflation of minerals.

    If Superman brought home a large enough chunk of gold, he could essentially crash the gold market and then it would be a practically useless shiny rock. He couldn’t even buy bread with it.

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    • Mandarbmax@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is why you can’t make money mining gold either. When companies mine gold it just drives down the price of gold so they get no money while also causing hyper inflation. This is why no one has ever bothered to mine gold.

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    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It would still be extremely valuable, though

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If Superman brought a large chunk of gold back to Earth, it would upset the market value of gold, thus devaluing the chunk he found as well as all gold on the planet.

      ok, so just bring back the right quantity of gold so it doesn’t crash the gold economy. I’m pretty sure superman can manage bringing back 1 million dollars worth of gold from wherever instead of 1 squillion

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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The current gold market is valued at 34.243 trillion dollars.

      I don’t know the scope of the damage here but lets assume it costs 50 billion to repair. That would be about 353 tons (US) of gold using current prices. The coat of this represents approximately 0.14% of the current global gold market.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s canon that Supes is a billionaire plus. There are literally tons of sunken treasure he’s hauled up and hidden in the Fortress of Solitude*

  *The creators of The Man Of Steel stole a lot of their ideas from Doc Savage, The Man of Bronze. Doc had a Fortress long before Superman ever flew.

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