Quote Originally Posted by AMFV View Post
The point here is that it's not just putting money in the bank, you have to actually work to be rich, and it's difficult to predict what's going to work to make money on a scale that's incredibly fleeting to an immortal.
Oh, I don't disagree with that. If you're after something that always appreciates in value then no such thing exists--gold is more stable over the long term than a lot of currencies, but it's not a sure thing by any means.

@thorgrim29: Gold isn't just useful because it's pretty and it's a good conductor, it's also incredibly malleable, which makes it useful for some applications you might not think of--for instance, the cockpit windows on Concorde had an incredibly thin layer of gold in them to act as an anti-glare mechanism.