“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 15 hours 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 3 hours ago
zeroConnection@programming.dev 13 hours ago
Exactly what they’re doing right now with diamonds.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Until we got synthetic diamonds
Town@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
The natural ones are still dug up by slaves and sold for a fortune, for some evil reason.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 10 hours ago
Because the people who can afford them love how they were obtained by putting the “rabble” in their place.