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by crooked-v 2729 days ago
> but they can not create gold

Sure, but they can mine, discover, or loot more of it.

> So you can be sure that your pieces of gold will be equally rare in 10 years

Consider historical events, like the colonial Spanish economy going kerplooey because they brought back too much gold from the Americas and it made the value of the stuff drop like a rock.