It’s more for when things have settled down a bit. Imagine you’re leading a group of people who secured a good territory and you’re growing more potatoes than you need. You may want jewelry made of gold to show how powerful and prosperous you are, both to your followers and to those outside. And you can give gold to particularily important followers, and to other leaders, in a very public ceremony, to show everyone that those leaders are beneath you.
Not a chemist myself but Gold has lots of industrial applications because it doesn’t react to many other atoms or molecules. For example, it doesn’t rust at all. Similar thing goes for platinum. Maybe we should buy the latter…
It’s more for when things have settled down a bit. Imagine you’re leading a group of people who secured a good territory and you’re growing more potatoes than you need. You may want jewelry made of gold to show how powerful and prosperous you are, both to your followers and to those outside. And you can give gold to particularily important followers, and to other leaders, in a very public ceremony, to show everyone that those leaders are beneath you.
Totally. I was more commenting on the theory of gold having this magical inherent objective value. Which it doesn’t, it’s a commodity like any other.
Honestly as a value store, land is probably better.
Not a chemist myself but Gold has lots of industrial applications because it doesn’t react to many other atoms or molecules. For example, it doesn’t rust at all. Similar thing goes for platinum. Maybe we should buy the latter…
Land isn’t portable. Gold is durable, portable and compact.