• Endorkend@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Its value has kept increasing over time.

    And it will likely keep doing so, as while in the past gold reserves only dropped when gold was lost (like ye old Spanish ship going down in the Ocean) against its natural increase of continued mining, these days, gold is also used in quite a lot of applications where it becomes impractical to recover after being discarded.

    And this removal of gold reserves will only keep increasing with the increase of its uses in technology.

    So, yeah, its value is almost assured to stay very solid and monopolizing the worlds gold also gives you a degree of control over technology markets.

    Markets where the west has typically kept China behind the curve.

    It gives them leverage, economical and technological.