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• Lanusensei87@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The funny thing about it is that you can very much attach any value you want to anything, it’s just a matter of how much reach your message has and how many people believe it. NFTs ended up crashing because eventually people realize they were worthless, but not before the snake oil salesmen racked in billions from them.

  If an influencer with millions of followers sold a bunch of autumn leaves, someone would buy them.

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  • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Didn’t that one broad sell her bath water or something? A fool and their money are soon parted.

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    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      At that point you are dealing with fetishes, which is an entirely different ball of wax.

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  • lunar17@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is a plot point in one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide books. They decide to burn down the forest to increase the value of leaves already collected.

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  • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Here we have them going for about 50¢ a leaf, which ain’t bad. I’d like to go ahead and sell my yard… we have some really nice leaves folks

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Looks like all you need to do is clean them enough to be strewn on a dinner table, sort them by type, and press them flat to dry. Then pack them to ship safely to places without yards full of autumn leaves. Or you could just do a couple handfuls of the best ones and use them for your own table at Thanksgiving. An outdated old textbook is good for the pressing part, just separate the leaves by several pages and put another tome on top.

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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Like Tulips, long ago one could buy a kingdom with tulips.

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  • jlow@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But they have to be “special”(lol) influenza leaves, right? Because otherwise the price would go down to zero every autumn 😸

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s like how money works

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• Godric@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  Thinking about it, I value this more than some shiny metal

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But shiny metal can be used to buy goods and services. Like trips to see the pretty leaves.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or buy land with trees on it

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reminds me of Aluminium.

  • Literally everywhere since the dawn of time. Impervious to fire, so couldn’t smelt it for thousands of years.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Only tangentially related, but I like this story

    scottsdalemint.com/…/the-hunt-brothers-how-two-bi…

    Tl;Dr two brothers tried to corner the silver market. Almost made it. Until they didn’t.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Interesting read – though my main takeaway is that even when you’re billions of dollars in debt, you can still come out with your vast fortune because your estate is not touched by litigation. So they declared bankruptcy and still kept their millions in assets

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• frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Leaves are much rarer than gold, at least on a cosmic scale.

  So if an alien life form came to our planet looking trade, then an autumn leaf could be seen as more valuable to them than gold.

  Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to invest heavily into timber so I can make money hand over first on some aliens.

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That really strikes me as a B ark sort of idea.

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  • horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What do people want from fire? Do they want it nasally?

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• hactar42@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone who lives in New England on 3/4 of an acre surrounded by 60-ft trees, please let this be true

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• okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Autumn leaves is the new e-girl bathwater

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This one has big Clickhole energy 😄🥰

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• ol_capt_joe@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  On the other hand, most famous economists can shut the fuck up 🙂

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  And if we’re talkin’ Autumn Leaves and gold: https://youtu.be/r-Z8KuwI7Gc

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What if we frapp the gold?

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• bryophile@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The only way this makes sense is if you think about the lack of autumn leaves nowadays because the leaves fall off because of draught before they can naturally do their autumn thing (as is now the case in Europe). A stable climate is worth money (gold).

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes the real gold would be bringing back Fall and Winter

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• 5ha99y@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Any objects value is always what the public makes it worth. That’s why market speculation is a thing in the first place. Value always depends on trends. I would say a leaf could be worth a lot when there are no trees anymore or for collectors a leaf of a tree type that doesnt exist anymore but is preserved well.

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• snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve seen sticks and autumn leaves sold in bags at my local supermarket.

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I dunno, I see some gold leaf in the one on the left.

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