You’d think that starfleet would realize that $100,000 in 2025 won’t even buy an old busted house in the middle of nowhere, let alone someplace that’s actually secure.
She has 5 bars, though, so wouldn’t that be $500,000? Half a million is almost enough for a so called “starter home”
There are places in the world you could live an easy life for quite a long while on US$500,000.
Oh for sure. Keep working, throw it in a low-risk low-yield index and use the interest to supplement your income. A modest 5% return gives you an extra 25k a year.
But as others have pointed out, the real problem comes from the awkward questions that come from trying to convert the gold into cash.
I mean one can always turn to the mafia
That’s your answer to everything!
Need money laundering? Turn to the mafia
Need a business advantage? The mafia
Annoyed by neighbors? Also mafia
Need help with your homework? Mafia
Can’t decide what to wear? Ask the mafia!
They’re just really good at what they do!
At current exchange rates, 50oz of gold would sell for $201,050. It would be a good down payment on a starter home, but less than half the total cost of ownership.
No, but it might cover groceries for a week (or two if you lay off the Grey Poupon).
They messed up not telling her exactly which crypto bubbles were starting and when to get out.
Fun fact: in german speaking countries (Austria, Germany and Switzerlamd), the Latinum is a certificate to prove one’s latin language skills.
Imagine a little german boy’s confusion about people in the future using these certificates for currency (like, confusion for a few moments before logic kicked in and I reckoned these to be two different things. I was like 7-10, okay?)
Did said certificates at least have a gold border?
(that is fascinating though!)
I think its customary to have the borders littered with Asterix characters
I think there isn’t even a physical, paper certificate to frame or border, just an entry in a school report. I’m not sure though, I had french and spanish lessons in school, no latin.
I just looked it up. It is a sentence in my graduation diploma (Abiturzeugnis):
Dieses Zeugnis schließt den Nachweis des Latinums gemäß der Vereinbarung über das Latinum und das Graecum (Beschluss der Kultusministerkonferenz vom 22. September 2005 in der jeweils geltenden Fassung) ein.
This diploma includes the certificate of the Latinum according to the agreement about the Latinum and Graecum (Decision of the conference of ministers of education of september 22^nd 2005 in the version currently in force).
The Graecum is the same as the Latinum but for ancient greek.
Holy shit it’s this comic, I haven’t seen this in like 30 years. I recognise the art style any day.
Woah, Real Life is still going. I haven’t read that in ages!
I’m pretty sure it officially stopped at one point, years ago, while I was still checking in on it. Did it come back or did I make up a story to avoid the realization that I’m too lazy to keep up on a simple website?
I don’t think it’s ever “officially” stopped, but it has gone on several unexplained hiatuses for long stretches of time.
In fact, my initial reaction seeing this was “holy shit, is she back?!” And immediately check for new comics, because today’s is the first one since April (edit: last year!) and I’d been low-key worried something had happened to her.
I actually just read the entire thing for the first time last month (1999 through to the modern day), and I had to go look up her social media accounts to make sure she was okay when I got to the last strip in April 2024.
I’m really excited that it’s back, but a bit bummed that I need to follow it in real-time now. 😁
I had no idea either! Started in 1999!
Holy shit I didn’t realize Mae transitioned. Good for her!
Yes, and the comics around it are absolutely amazing!
Here’s a link. The arc started at the end of June 2020, and ran through the middle of July. The strips after that revolve around coming out to her wife, and what happened there.
Get in the Real Life (™) archives. It’s a really beautifully told story.
Regardless of latinum I’m pretty sure the bank would be asking a lot of questions in regards to how some suburbanites came upon 4 gold bricks without any markings
Yeah, they should have busted some American gold eagles or Krugerrand out of a museum or something.
Snatch up Nazi gold bars from subs that wouldn’t have been found until 50 years later…but then you’d immediately join the orange turd’s inner circle.
She gave you latinum because they ruined the economy and don’t actually have money in the future.
Section 31, so the buyer is probably a romulan from the future. She should kid nap the buyer and torture them for scientific advancements she can then make early in the name of the Federation.
That’s a better story than the Section 31 movie.
“For the remainder of this Craigslist ad meetup the Temporal Prime Directive is revoked.”
I would expect the price or relative value of gold to latinum to collapse once asteroid mining becomes viable.
