Hi writer … thank you and I like your posts too. And yes to the...

Hi writer … thank you and I like your posts too.
And yes to the concept of ‘the machine’ hoovering up all the gold jewellery from wherever a drone happens to drop it

(I’ve enlarged the idea and made it global and portable)​

… and no matter what currency folk are ‘gifted with’ in return, the gold is gone.
It strikes me this is not just a logical and convenient way of taking AI into the world but that all those (mostly) Asians you see checking out the pieces with their loops and digital scales are going to have to find another interest.
-We’re in such an interesting time of cultural evolution right now - not just in terms of wealth.

… Although speaking of that (wealth) @substanceonly Reuters suggests it was the ttts, ie Trump Tariff Trepidation that’s been sucking gold into the US late last year and in January? https://hotcopper.com.au/search/search?type=post&users=substanceonly

So what now, I wonder?
- In respect of both the future of ‘the machines’ and -importantly for Spartan - gold?

cheers