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Originally Posted by davidr3
At some point gold was just a rock
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A rock isn't gold still.
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Originally Posted by davidr3
The United States prints money. You can claim "my 20 dollars is just my 20 dollars" but look at the inflation rate. While there is backing of the U.S dollar, your 20 dollars is not the same 20 dollars years ago.
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It prints it for you. You should have (many?) more 20 dollars than you had years ago. There must've been times when one could buy a woman for 1$. Or a cow for 1.50$. But one could have just neither back then.
