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[ChairmanPoo]

Heh, didn't some country sink its entire stock of platinum into the ocean when they were afraid someone would use it for counterfeiting? I remember reading something like that once.

There was a short story by Roald Dahl in which a rich, dying man, buys a lot of platinum

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When, after buriying him at sea, his inheritors (whom he hated) find out that he had spent all his cash in this they start tracking it down, and the clues apparently suggest that he used it to make his coffin.

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In truth, he resold it and donated the money to a charity. He just made it seem like that in order to have them give it up as lost.

[Nikov]

I like to imagine it works that way in real life and that we'd all be in spaceships colonizing the stars or even transcending into Gods by now if we hadn't pissed off the Creator by spreading coins and shit everywhere

"Me! Stop going to the store and buying socks! You don't need socks! You sit around the house barefoot all day on break! You're supposed to be updating stockpile records! RAAAAGE!"

[Grakelin]

Turns out Dwarf Fortress was an allegory on the dangers of consumerism all along.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I thought Dwarf Fortress was trying to get us used to superior short humanoids so we would accept the impending Little People Takeover.