ATM CryptoKingdom gold may make more sense than actual gold. VR worlds are on the rise as the physical world can't hide its costs in blood, sweat and tears. Some woman dangles a diamond in front of me and all I see is a CIA propped warlord, death squads and Nicholas Cage asking, "How do we arm the other 11?"
Despite, however, "the physical world . . . costs in blood, sweat and tears" (generalizethis), one would venture to acquire a "
emi-/precious [material]" (username18333).
If "knowledge" (TPTB_need_war et al) should bear similar "costs" (generalizethis), should one so venture the acquisition thereof?