# you might leave work today to go home to a different world.. **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 10, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/you-might-leave-work-today-to-go-home-to-a-different-world/200078 "2008-10-10T05:30:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/you-might-leave-work-today-to-go-home-to-a-different-world/200078/10 "2008-10-10T06:24:32Z")
> [@DVD Shrink....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dvd-shrink/38247/8): > > warren Buffett emphasized the non-productive aspect of gold in 1998 at Harvard: “It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.” In 1977 Buffett was also quoted as saying about stocks, gold, farmland and inflation: "stocks are probably still the best of all the poor alternatives in an era of inflation - at least they are if you buy in at appropriate prices. so basing a currency on a worthless piece of paper that can be manipulated very easily makes more sense? if these banks weren’t lending out imaginary money and totally causing the housing bubble to blow up to giant proportions then we would not be in this mess. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/you-might-leave-work-today-to-go-home-to-a-different-world/200078)._