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by StavrosK
4617 days ago
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Well, first of all, bark doesn't just exist in free form in the ground and get moved to the tree, it's synthesized from the CO2 in the air (I'm no plantologist, so this may be overly simplified). However, the difference isn't in the "grow" part, it's in the "gold" part. If you tell someone "I've found a plant that grows gold", their reaction won't be "wow, what an interesting mechanism", it will be "holy shit, we're rich!". If you want apples, you plant an apple tree, then you grow apples for free. By that analogy, if you want gold, you plant one of these trees, and get gold for free, which doesn't hold, because you'll never get more gold than how much you put in. |
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This isn't true, in the same way that it's not true that a gold mine will never give you any more gold than you put into the mine in the first place. There's already gold in the ground.