Edison on Gold: Fictitious Value & Superstition

From this New York Times article:

"All of the wealth in the world, according to our present standards, may be rendered worthless, by the discovery that gold can be made synthetically."
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"That is one way to do it - make it so plentiful that it drowns its fictitious value and drowns the superstition of the people along with it." - Thomas Edison

New York Times article - 1921
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