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Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo (united24media.com)
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Buying one way tickets to hell for Russian soldiers by selling off Russia's gold and treasure... What will be left when all the humans and gold have been carelessly traded away by Putin to power the mindless Russian war machine?

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[–] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

My man; everything is worthless unless a critical mass of people find value in it.

If every single person in the entire world except you refused to acknowledge the US dollar tomorrow, it would become worthless.
The same goes for every currency having ever existed.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

everything is worthless

A corollary is that the best things in life are ~~free~~ either not actually "the best" or not yet effectively monitized.