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What’s better: someone’s wife wearing a gold necklace, or a gold ignot sitting idle in Fort Knox?

What’s better: someone living in a house, or a house sitting idle as a store of value?

What’s better: someone storing his wealth in houses and gold ignots, or in special financial assets that don’t take away products from other people?



Hoarded wealth is a stinking manure; used wealth is a fertilizer.


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It’s bad to be able to transport wealth through time? Spend it or lose it? Never work hard now for later?




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