Malyca comments on Elon musk just became a trillionaire. Toughts?

Elon musk just became a trillionaire. Toughts? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Show it to me? All I see is numbers on a screen. Where's the gold to back it up. No? Then no trillionare.

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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Tbf, gold is mostly only valuable as a social construct like cash or the numbers on the screen.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

As is anything with "value".

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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago

No. Food has inherent value. A tool has inherent value. Kindness has inherent value. Gold has value in its practical applications but it's dollar value is largely because it's pretty and kind of rare.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

You know that wine with the gold leaf in it? Geldbrau? I forget the name, the name isn't important for purposes of this conversation. Well I hear tha all he lets his children drink, with the hopes that when he decides to use one as a donor he can say he got the fancy blood eh the gold flake.

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