Fuck is This?

The Gold Standard makes sense

The NCR still has use for gold and part of the reason they are in the shit is their reserves went dry because of the bunker faggots.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable
Things are valuable because we assign value to them

That's currently developing. Brahmin barons, Crimson Caravan executives, yeah. If we were selling in California I'd say it's fine.

But I don't see many in the Mojave giving a shit.

what the fuck do you think new vegas is?

>but it isn't really useful for anything.

Gold is very valuable in conductors and semi conductors. It has a ton of useful applications. For example in industrial scrubbers goldtraps are very useful in removing mercury and sulfur. You guys are talking out of your asses

We alone can devalue gold
by not caring
if it falls or rises
in the marketplace.
Wherever there is gold
there is a chain, you know,
and if your chain
is gold
so much the worse
for you.
Feathers, shells
and sea-shaped stones
are all as rare.

This could be our revolution:
to love what is plentiful
as much as
what's scarce.

You can not see whatever you want. But people everywhere for all time have valued rare and flashy bullshit because only powerful people can accrue a lot of it, and our monkey brains demand we assert our position in society. There are people in the mojave with money and power, there are people willing to pay money for gold

Why was gold considered valuable for thousands of years before electronics?

Just recently discovered and relying on the NCR to waste fucktons of money to make it an economic powerhouse.

Grug like sparkle.

Anons itt are brainlets. Your phone has gold in it, your computer and all components has gold in it, every electronic has gold in it, the internet runs on gold, gold is important for tech because it has innate qualities that more abudant metals lack. And in falloutverse all laser and plasma weapons have gold in them so you can easily off load the gold bar to van graffs.

we’ve had thousands of years where life was hard and the economy was based off of utility and gold has still always been valuable

why the fuck would you carry a bag full of jingly bottlecaps and why would anyone value them?

>How are merchants going to offload it
Gold lasts forever and basically doesn't degrade. Knowing this, you could hold onto it for twenty years and still sell it for full value when the opportunity rolled around. There's a reason that gold was one of the predominant forms of wealth storage two thousand years ago

Energy weapons use rare earth minerals to make. Maybe not some regular merchant like Cliff in Novac have any use for it but Gun Runners do

Because it was uniquely "rare enough" to be made into a currency. And then currency reflected divisions of it. And now currency is reflected by the respect of a nation.

I can't buy McDonald's with gold.

Fucking retards.

Gold will never have zero value even if people don’t want it as jewellery or as a money. Gold is important for tech and as we advance to a future age we need more and more gold.

>NCR economy based on gold
>Brotherhood nae nae it with radiation
>Suddenly NCR economy is shit because huge stock of gold is unusable

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Too bad we're running low.

Dooish.

that's not the gold's fault.

>fix tech?
>brotherhood SMASH

Based Grugs.

You cant destroy gold.

rare, lasts a long time in a damp stone coffer, very obviously gold to someone who knows what gold is like (so easy to use as a currency before we could cast coins easily, or in another area where your coins aren't worth anything)

>It's shiny, rare but not impossible to find, but it isn't really useful for anything.

It's pretty and it lasts forever in the natural environment, that alone makes it more valuable than 99.9% of anything encountered by humans. So much of the human experience is about obtaining and holding onto physically beautiful things because beauty transcends our mortal existence. There is an innate desire to become one with that which is beautiful, but you cannot become gold, you cannot become color; instead we relegate ourselves to 'owning' beauty because that is the closest we will be to becoming beautiful ourselves.

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Gold has always been a very valuable resource, even before the rapid technological advancements of the 19th and 20th centuries. Why would that change?

just pour Radaway on it