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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 73 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They say that during the California gold rush, the people who got richest were the shovel salesmen

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Pretty sure it was the people who had the money for heavy equipment and labor that could get the deep gold the prospectors found, but couldn't reach.

[-] Acters@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure it was the few people who controlled the amount of supply to the people who wanted the gold after taking the gold from the miners

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago

That came later.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 13 points 7 months ago

They are fools, the richest were the people who bought the mines.

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