"Oh wow a kryptonite radiation machine, I volunteer Superman to go inside! Doesn't feel so good does it?"
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sundray@lemmus.org 16 hours ago
“How much does being Superman pay? Oh, it doesn’t, does it?”
rainwall@piefed.social 14 hours ago
In Supes defense, he could just fly out to a gold asteroid and knock a chunk off to pay for it himself.
cobysev@lemmy.world 13 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.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 12 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.