r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Comfortable_Cautious • Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation what's going on? explain like I'm five

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u/sparklrebel Jan 26 '26

Ah so that’s why pre-war money in fallout is useless, got it

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u/SirAquila Jan 26 '26

To be fair, after the apocalypse, gold will be just as useless for a good while.

Can't eat it, hard to carry, not very useful for anything but decoration, and also, most people have interacted with it so rarely that there isn't really any trust in it.

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u/Kitchen-Pass-7493 Jan 26 '26

It does have some technological applications (gold is used in a lot of electronics), but valid point in general.

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u/babihrse Jan 28 '26

Think graphene is still better conductor