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zenmonkeyman:
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HatchA:
Give it forty years and gold or money will be among the last things on anyone's mind (other than big corporations, that is).

There'll be 18 billion people on the planet.  Water and space to live will be the main problems facing mankind then.  Those of us with the ability to find/hunt our own food now, will have a head start on the masses.

God bless capitalism...  we'll be paying for it forever... :-\

sailordad:
hatcha i have to disagree with you
gold has always been highly sought after and always will be
as it is a rare metal
when the time comes in forty years and there are 18billion people
those people as you said will will be needing water,space to live and food
those that have gold will always have all that stuff
it always has been that way,always will be that way.well as long as human kind is in charge

DanaM:
40 years from now I will most likely be dead :)

HatchA:
I understand what you're saying and where you're coming from, Sailor but it's from an historical viewpoint.  If you're nursing a dwindling supply of fresh, clean water, how much gold would it cost someone to fill a canteen from it?  Gold is a "precious metal" - precious because mankind has made it so.  Historically, mankind has had an abundance of drinking water available to him.  When good drinking water becomes a scarcity, what use is all the gold in the land to the average Joe, trying to eek out an existence with the meagerest of resources?

You might say "but he could buy water with gold..."  and again, I'd ask "how much water would someone part with, for something as trivial (cos let's be honest... it IS trivial) as little more than something nice to look at?"

Vicious circles abound, I think  :-\

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