the gold price on planet is a fraud because it has to be, if it wasn't, and your indulgence of letting the metal itself float as a store of human labor, then there would be a lot more gold-mining machines than the socially-optimal solution would suggest. the child asks: "daddy, why are 1/5th of the world's population dedicated to the one task of getting gold out of the ground?" because it's the only money son, it has to be this way.   nshb4q1y "isn't there a better way, where we paper-hang it?" a student meditates on the sound of one hand clapping, and begins to understand. that's far enough bucko, back to the confusion barnyard.
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