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Anon hates aluminum (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, and it's expensive because it's ...well, expensive. It's not any less abundant than some other metals or more difficult to extract. We just decided it's gonna be expensive

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I mean, we didn't just arbitrarily decide that gold would be expensive, we decided it would be expensive because it's pretty. It seemed like a good idea a few thousand years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

So a gold mine is both literal and figurative, eh?