Why we mine gold only to bury it again
Aliens observing our economy would think we are absolute idiots. We spend billions of dollars and employ massive, environmentally destructive machinery to drag shiny metal out of the earth's crust. Then, instead of doing anything useful with most of it, we melt it into bricks, ship it across the ocean, and bury it in highly guarded, heavily fortified underground basements.

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