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JakobVirgil  ·  4243 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Does gold have innate value?"

does anything have innate "worth" then. it seems worth has to be a externally given quality.





AnSionnachRua  ·  4243 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd be inclined to agree that nothing, technically, has innate worth.

I mean, gold is very useful as a conductor in a lot of electronics, but even then that merely relegates the "value" to another location - i.e. gold is valuable to us because, say, we use electronics, but electronics also have no intrinsic value, and so on.

JakobVirgil  ·  4242 days ago  ·  link  ·  

and also the worth Ron Paul assigns it