• teft
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    82 years ago

    What value does gold have other than it doesn’t rust and it looks pretty?

    It’s the same thing essentially. Latinum looks pretty and can’t be replicated therefore it’s a good currency.

    • Bonehead
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      82 years ago

      Gold is used in a variety of applications. You’re likely holding a device filled with gold right now. Even before the computer revolution, is was still used in medical applications. There are tons of uses for gold that don’t involve currency.

      • Troy
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        32 years ago

        The microgram of gold in my phone pales in comparison to the gold used in jewellery or hoarded.

        • Bonehead
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          12 years ago

          Yes, but again even by your own admission, it has uses other than just currency.

      • teft
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        2 years ago

        Yes it does have applications nowadays but when gold was used as a monetary store we didn’t have electronics. Gold was mainly used because it is shiny, easily workable, rare, and never corroded.

        • Bonehead
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          52 years ago

          It was shiny, easily workable, and didn’t turn your skin green. As a jewelry metal, it was much more valuable than as a currency. It had uses other than just money…

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      You missed a big advantage of gold: it’s so dense you can verify that a piece of gold is real just by weighing it, because very few materials are even close to the density of gold. For most of human history, it was impossible to substitute another material for gold, and even now, the materials that are denser than gold are radioactive and/or more expensive than gold.