It feels like a thing built on lies and promises, but it works, somehow it does.
Not a quote from a “great thinker” but picked up from popular fiction writer Conn Iggulden when he’s trying to capture the feeling of how nomad tribe leader Ghengis Khan looks upon gold and how it powered the arab empire and its cities. Gold at that time must really have been the most useless piece of metal you could imagine its value only represented in the labour it took to dig it up.
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Not a quote from a “great thinker” but picked up from popular fiction writer Conn Iggulden when he’s trying to capture the feeling of how nomad tribe leader Ghengis Khan looks upon gold and how it powered the arab empire and its cities. Gold at that time must really have been the most useless piece of metal you could imagine its value only represented in the labour it took to dig it up.