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minus-squarevxx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·23 days agoI would agree for the case that we’re truly in end times where nobody has anything and people fight over scraps of food, that gold might be worthless. It’s still your best bet for all other scenarios that don’t involve you hiding in a cave and eating bugs.
minus-squaredogslayeggs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·23 days agoAnd even THEN, gold is a shiny, pretty metal that doesn’t oxidize like other shiny metals. So the tyrants of the apocalyptic wastelands will STILL want it for jewelry.
minus-squarevxx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·23 days agoI think that’s the moment you don’t want to have Gold on you.
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·23 days agoYou think the end times are going to be characterized by no one having anything?
minus-squarevxx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·23 days agoI think the end times is the short period before the end. If it is sudden, gold does matter even less.
I would agree for the case that we’re truly in end times where nobody has anything and people fight over scraps of food, that gold might be worthless.
It’s still your best bet for all other scenarios that don’t involve you hiding in a cave and eating bugs.
And even THEN, gold is a shiny, pretty metal that doesn’t oxidize like other shiny metals. So the tyrants of the apocalyptic wastelands will STILL want it for jewelry.
I think that’s the moment you don’t want to have Gold on you.
You think the end times are going to be characterized by no one having anything?
I think the end times is the short period before the end.
If it is sudden, gold does matter even less.