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 @2a70c54d i like tge people who think gold has real calue but paper doesn’t. you gonna eat that, fella? maybe it’s time for the porato standard 
 @0e94fcb9 Right? Another interesting little factoid about gold...in much of the ancient world, silver was more valuable. But that's besides the point. We assign value to things and then agree about it. That's money. And it could literally be anything. At various times and in various cultures, sea shells, stones even dried mushrooms (its true!) Have served as currency. Basically what I'm saying is that we make up games and then forget that we are playing a game