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Solid Logic Beats Utopian Fever

This is a meme screenshot of a Twitter/X conversation about asteroid 16 Psyche's gold reserves. The first tweet from user Todd claims the asteroid holds $700 quintillion worth of gold, enough to make every person on Earth a billionaire. Below the tweet is an image of asteroid 16 Psyche, followed by a reply tweet from user Rony Shelton that corrects the fundamental economic misunderstanding: flooding the global market with this enormous amount of gold would completely devalue gold, leaving everyone still poor, and he sarcastically tells the original poster to take an economics class. The meme highlights how basic common economics defeats common viral utopian-style claims about space resources.
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@Todd Twitter/X

Asteroid Psyche 16 has been found to contain gold reserves worth $700 quintillion. That's enough to make everyone on Earth billionaires.

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No, that would make gold worthless and we'd all still be poor. Take a goddamn economics class.

Overview

This is a meme screenshot of a Twitter/X conversation about asteroid 16 Psyche's gold reserves. The first tweet from user Todd claims the asteroid holds $700 quintillion worth of gold, enough to make every person on Earth a billionaire. Below the tweet is an image of asteroid 16 Psyche, followed by a reply tweet from user Rony Shelton that corrects the fundamental economic misunderstanding: flooding the global market with this enormous amount of gold would completely devalue gold, leaving everyone still poor, and he sarcastically tells the original poster to take an economics class. The meme highlights how basic common economics defeats common viral utopian-style claims about space resources.

Origin notes

The image is a repost of a public Twitter/X conversation, shared to 9Gag with the given title 'Solid Logic Beats Utopian Fever'. It circulates as a popular meme demonstrating basic supply and demand economics that is often missed in viral posts about asteroid mining and space resources.

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