So a gold mine is both literal and figurative, eh?
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repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 6 months agoYeah, and it’s expensive because it’s …well, expensive. It’s not any less abundant than some other metals or more difficult to extract. We just decided it’s gonna be expensive
Liz@midwest.social 6 months ago
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean, we didn’t just arbitrarily decide that gold would be expensive, we decided it would be expensive because it’s pretty. It seemed like a good idea a few thousand years ago.