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by vegabook 3756 days ago
You missed the point completely. Indeed you need to reverse the order of your underlying axiom, completely. That gold has value because it serves as money is obvious. The real question, which the author does a very good job at least at beginning to broach, is why did it, and not some other material or scarce human creation, become money in the first place.
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because of those five properties of gold.
That was a rhetorical question.