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    2 months ago

    At least everything would be covered in gold then. Electronics would be cheaper too.

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          With gold bullets and a gold guillotine. I think they would like that.

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            Gold plated isn’t actually hard I think I could to that in my bathtub but would it hold an edge?

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              Maybe the blade would have to be replaced on every use, but the weight would still do its job.

              … actually, maybe the blade wouldn’t even need to be replaced.

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                I’ll believe you I don’t kn9w about this stuff I think I sharpened a kitchen knife once and my dad was making me he said I did a bad job and I tried to use that knife later I think he was being too nice

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          It wouldn’t make anything cheaper. We owe more on national debt that all our billionaire could even come close to playing, and that is if China have us market value for the after we would need to sell from the billionaire to extract the value.

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            Money is fake do you not understand that its like a placeholder an idea of obligation it doesn’t exist materially even these round metal things are just round metal things the money of them is just calvinball

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              Your right, so how would getting rid of billionaire change anything? They don’t have money, they have stocks and assets

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                Which are money money isn’t the coin its the thing the coin implies stocks are closer to being money than coins in our very class immobile society its closer to a mystical property like phlogiston or being one of the elect a rare collectors pog is a more meaningful money than a penny a nice suit and white skin more money than either

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                  But those sticks, like rooms for example are only trading at 350p/e because of Elon. If we got rid of him it would be trading at 30 like every other car company. That’s would wipe out 600 billion overnight. You would get virtually nothing from that extraction and Tesla didn’t provide enough profits to solve us hunger or housing, and with the value being extracted the company would unfortunately fall to it’s competitors like byd.

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                    Why would that be unfortunate the money itself is not value its points what’s actually being done with how those points are distributed and how is byd worse than swasticar incorporated is this just scary because Chinese I don’t understand

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      yeah, after impact, quite evenly. last time it happened, it was called iridium anomaly. there’s not that much gold in electronics and other platinum group metals are more useful from material engineering perspective

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            No. If it were as cheap as steel, we wound make whole packages from it. Completely new things.

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              i think of gold more as a premium lead. we’d for sure coat insides of cans with it, instead of tin if it was so cheap, but it’s weaker than steel. radiation shielding would be another one, ever heard of ancient lead used for radiation shielding for high sensitivity experiments? gold has none of these problems. gold ammunition, gold piping for chemical industry instead of nickel alloys, as long as it’s not too heavy. it would also cause all sorts of new problems with recycling