What’s better: someone’s wife wearing a gold necklace, or a gold ignot sitting idle in Fort Knox?

What’s better: someone living in a house, or a house sitting idle as a store of value?

What’s better: someone storing his wealth in houses and gold ignots, or in special financial assets that don’t take away products from other people?

Hoarded wealth is a stinking manure; used wealth is a fertilizer.

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It’s bad to be able to transport wealth through time? Spend it or lose it? Never work hard now for later?

Doesn’t the appeal of gold as jewelry rely on it being expensive? I think if the price cratered its use in jewelry would probably plummet.

It's the look. You also get resin / rock / clay / steel / ... (anything really) jewellery. It's not just about the price. And even then, a jewelry-sized gold piece is quite cheap.

Would she be happy to wear a necklace that appeared identical to gold to the naked eye, but anyone with a $10 instrument could demonstrate was not gold but something relatively worthless? If so, I have something I would like to sell you that your wife would really love.

I doubt she would be too pleased with the green stain left behind when taken off