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    1 month ago

    They say that during the California gold rush, the people who got richest were the shovel salesmen

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      1 month ago

      Pretty sure it was the people who had the money for heavy equipment and labor that could get the deep gold the prospectors found, but couldn’t reach.

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        Pretty sure it was the few people who controlled the amount of supply to the people who wanted the gold after taking the gold from the miners