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The true tossup is actually mercury or lead.
Both insanely useful metals with a massive variety of helpful traits.
And the universe made them poisonous to us as a big "FUCK YOU".
It's very annoying that gold is so expensive. Much less toxic and still has loads of great properties. It's just, you know, expensive.
Yeah, and it's expensive because it's ...well, expensive. It's not any less abundant than some other metals or more difficult to extract. We just decided it's gonna be expensive
I mean, we didn't just arbitrarily decide that gold would be expensive, we decided it would be expensive because it's pretty. It seemed like a good idea a few thousand years ago.
So a gold mine is both literal and figurative, eh?