Comment by Hikikomori

2 years ago

It's still working for diamonds.

Yeah, human psychology is the real philosopher's stone, huh? Make people feel like it's valuable and it becomes as such. If Graber's work is to be trusted the review of the development of gold as a token of exchange has little to do with its innate properties, and more to do with the fact that the state institutions demanded taxes be paid in said tokens.

Intriguing.