“The mine owners did not find the gold asteroid, they did not mine the gold asteroid, they did not mill the gold asteroid, but by some weird alchemy all the gold from the asteroid belonged to them!”
Bill Haywood
Comment on Gold
gnutrino@programming.dev 1 month ago
More likely - whichever billionaire mined it would hoard it off the market to keep the value high and make them richer.
vapordays@leminal.space 1 month ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
You fool, the tax payers will fund it. The billionaire will merely provide the shell companies to channel government funding through, in return for some sizeable dark money political donation kickbacks that will enable whatever crooked politicians who allowed such theft to occur to absolutely flood the airwaves with propaganda at every election cycle.
zeroConnection@programming.dev 1 month ago
Exactly what they’re doing right now with diamonds.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Until we got synthetic diamonds
Town@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The natural ones are still dug up by slaves and sold for a fortune, for some evil reason.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 month ago
Because the people who can afford them love how they were obtained by putting the “rabble” in their place.