• Liz
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    136 months ago

    It’s very annoying that gold is so expensive. Much less toxic and still has loads of great properties. It’s just, you know, expensive.

    • @repungnant_canary
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      106 months ago

      Yeah, 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

      • VindictiveJudge
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        86 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.

      • Liz
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        46 months ago

        So a gold mine is both literal and figurative, eh?

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      There’s also silver which is an off brand ripoff version of gold. It kind of sucks because it discolors and turns purple.