Gold. It is worth so much and yet so little. No, not a Gold Card...
See, the world sees Gold as being the most valuable currency and there are all these stores going "Sell your jewelry for Gold!" However, is Gold really worth as much as people say it is? It is even used as the most valuable form of money in games...
Think about it this way. What can you make from Gold? You can make jewelry, yes, but it is brittle and will break easily. You can't make wire with it as there are more effective ways to make wire than with gold and much cheaper. You can't use it for survival. You can't make tools with it. You can't make much more than pieces of the human body or computer parts. However, that requires modern technology and in an emergency it is unlikely that Gold computer parts will do you any good. Heck, you might as well just use the computer itself and it would be more effective for anything the parts can be used for. Wonka's rendition of a Golden Ticket, used in Movies. Not real life.
Never in real life would you ever use real Gold to make anything. You can't use it to make tickets, or cards, or anything even the tiniest bit useful in an emergency without the use of technology. Even then, Gold is rarely used. An Artist's Rendition of An Alchemist.
Alchemists tried their hardest to find ways to make Gold for centuries and their efforts made both the history books and the fiction books. Yet for what possible reason would they be doing this? GOLD IS WORTHLESS. So, I leave it to you, TLers, to tell me why Gold is so valuable to everyone if you can't do anything with it?
If you had to kill either a parent or that one guy at the supermarket, who do you choose? People assign their own value to whatever, it's all relative/subjective etc etc
At some point we decided gold is fucking cool, so we pay a lot for it.
I believe it is valuable because it is scarce and doesn't deteriorate, I read somewhere the the total amout of gold mined ever is a very small amount of actual space.
well in India there is a huge demand for gold from the growing middle class, due to its cultural/religious significance. So even though gold has very few practical functions in a the modern world, it's definitely not worthless in the global economy.
also nobody cares about dominion gold anymore, it's all about the plats
I think if you're doing the whole Cracked thing (or wherever it originated) or inserting random pictures in they have to be at least relevant to what you're writing. The way it's set up now they're way too huge and distracting, and the captions are also not really relevant (or funny).
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