Taken from Superstonk Reddit. Everything is a lie. Nothing is real.
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Everything is a facade. Even gold only has value because people think it does. (Gold really isn't that useful as a metal.)
That said, governments / kings HAVE created money out of thin air and spent it. That's how we funded the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. We don't need the Federal Reserve. We probably don't even need taxes anymore.
The American people are so ridiculously productive, economically speaking, that we could touch a rock and call it money and the rest of the world would fall over themselves to get those rocks. There is nothing like having Americans work in your company.
(Gold really isn't that useful as a metal.)
I beg to differ, it's very useful industrially speaking.
I mean, as an electrical connector it's pretty good. But other metals tend to be better in specific cases.
It's a very critical conductor though ... every single integrated circuit on this planet that requires high speed external interfaces (basically every single high speed DRAM and CPU out there today save your low-end 8 bit microcontrollers and the like) needs high speed bond wires to get info off the silicon die and onto I/O pins at high speeds. Gold is the lowest cost conductor available to realize this in consumer markets.
And as you mentioned ... connectors need it too (though that's more to prevent corrosion). However, connectors are plated with gold. Plating is nothing compared to the amount of gold required for high speed bond wires in a typical CPU that may have 800+ connections from silicon pads to I/O pins.
Of course, one EMP that actually works, and gold is worthless for a while in that industry :-).
Platinum and silver are chemically useful for all kinds of things. Gold -- not so much.