Does Adobe know they are a kind of clay made from the red dirts of the American Southwest? Dirt? Clay? That's not very futuristic *at all*

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Gold doesn't go down. You need currencies to strengthen so that it seems like gold goes down. They found clay tablets in mesopotamia from 4000 BC that describe buying a load of bread with gold. Converting the amount of gold into modern prices, a loaf cost around $8 worth of gold. The value of gold in terms of what it buys is pretty much unchanged in six thousand years.

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