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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1951321, member: 26302"]Btw Doug, yes, gold has been nearly valueless in many, many cultures in the last 6,000 years. Placing a high value on gold is a LEARNED trait. The Mesopatamians and Assyrians started using it for their priesthood garb, and the rich followed suit. Then these cultures "taught" other cultures that gold was valuable since they would trade them a high price for theirs. This was taught to other cultures further away, so on and so forth. The exact same "teaching" was done with jade in the orient, but since China was more isolated it did not spread as widely. Just a pet peeve how so many people think humans innately LOVE gold and wish to own it desperately. Its not that, it was a learned trait. If the same thing would have happened in New Zealand where there were not others to teach of gold's "value" we would be making fun of the natives for valuing such a worthless metal, kind of like how we made fun of many cultures for their own learned traits. The only difference with gold is the center of civilization was the one "teaching" this, and geographically it could access most people.[/QUOTE]