You’re saying I should open a car wash?
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red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours agoCash in this day and age is a huge pain in the butt. Sure, you can get groceries and some tech. But buying a house or even a car or pay for services? Impossible to very inconvenient. Even just paying for everything in cash will be a problem if you ever get audited. You’d need to launder the money somehow and at that point you can also take the gold.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
On the advice of counsel, I decline to answer that question.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Would it raise as many questions if you inexplicably receive a priceless painting as a gift from an anonymous benefactor and then sell it on the legitimate market?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Cash in this day and age is a huge pain in the butt.
The initial deposit would be tricky, but after that it’s pretty straightforward.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Another critical difference:
If you got a million dollars in cash you were obliged to pay taxes upon receipt, and if you did not do so and you try to deposit it, you are going to get flagged for a tax audit and subject to criminal charges.
If you got a million dollars in GOLD you don’t pay taxes until you sell it. So you can sit on it for years and then sell it and deposit it and you only pay taxes at that moment and have not broken the law in doing so.
Money is income, Gold is just gold until you turn it into money.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Good point, but after a while someone would still want to know where the gold came from. Unless you sell it so slowly that it’d be barely useful to you.
Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
“after a while someone would still want to know where the gold came from”, five minutes after the cash has been exchanged, you’ll be quickly forgotten about. You don’t live in a damn csi episode