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South Koreans hunt for old LG air-conditioners after logos turn out to be pure gold
(www.straitstimes.com)
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The people who made out like bandits during the 1849 gold rush sold panning equipment and shovels. This is the modern version of that.
Well, them and the bandits, I'd imagine.
I actually think the metaphor doesn't really work when applied literally, except in the tautological sense. Banditry was a very poor lifestyle, only engaged in by the truly desperate.
I think we can both agree tautology works because it works, and that's good enough for me.
That was with an essentially infinite supply of people to sell to. There’s only 10k of these things, and putting it on the internet insures that you’re only going to get an incredibly small fraction of the gold sold back to gold stores.