[Kozak]

Unless you are making electronic components, that is.

Or Jewelry. Never a time in history that women didn't like pretty pretty shiny things.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Never a time in history that women didn’t like pretty pretty shiny things.

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...nor that men didn’t like pretty pretty women.

Gold is fundamentally a way of turning a man’s labor into sex. Now THAT’s alchemy!