it is strange to think of all the humanity involved in gathering up all the gold we have, which is not all that much, over thousands of years, hundreds of generations of man scratching away at the surface of the earth to gather up a particular metal, fighting and dying over it, for no real purpose.
but then again, most of what workers do nowadays is pointless too.
all the gold ever mined would fit in an olympic sized swimming pool. it’s pretty rare. people have been looking for it and hoarding it forever.
