Charlie Stross@daviddlevine @lilithsaintcrow Gold is only ever valuable because people agree that it's valuable. Otherwise it's just a scarce electrically conductive metal like copper. (Graeber has a bunch to say about the origins of the "gold = money" fallacy in "Debt: The First Five Thousand Years".)
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