Reminds me of Aluminium.

• Literally everywhere since the dawn of time.
• Impervious to fire, so couldn’t smelt it for thousands of years.
• Electricity invented, and can now separate small amounts of it
• Worth more than gold, crown jewels made of it
• Market valuation keeps increasing
• New technique involving sodium allows us to extract large quantities of it
• Market valuation nosedives to nothing in a single day
• We use it to wrap food and drink cans with, and then we chuck it

Can you imagine being an investor back then

The funny thing about it is that you can very much attach any value you want to anything, it’s just a matter of how much reach your message has and how many people believe it. NFTs ended up crashing because eventually people realize they were worthless, but not before the snake oil salesmen racked in billions from them.

If an influencer with millions of followers sold a bunch of autumn leaves, someone would buy them.

only place that still brings up nft’s

so many npc’s on lemmy

Autumn leaves is the new e-girl bathwater

That really strikes me as a B ark sort of idea.

Any objects value is always what the public makes it worth. That’s why market speculation is a thing in the first place. Value always depends on trends. I would say a leaf could be worth a lot when there are no trees anymore or for collectors a leaf of a tree type that doesnt exist anymore but is preserved well.

The only way this makes sense is if you think about the lack of autumn leaves nowadays because the leaves fall off because of draught before they can naturally do their autumn thing (as is now the case in Europe). A stable climate is worth money (gold).

I’ve seen sticks and autumn leaves sold in bags at my local supermarket.

I dunno, I see some gold leaf in the one on the left.