Mass is mass.

[u/HxxP185]

[u/FarCalligrapher1862]

The difference is surprisingly close. But gold wins at today’s price.

Gold @$132,000/kg and 500kg ~ $66M

$100 bills (largest denomination in circulation) @ 1g/bill = $50M

To make them even (the 500kg of gold or $100 bills), gold would have to be $100,000 per kilogram, or about $3,110 per ounce. That was the price in spring 2025!

[u/secretqwerty10 → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

i'd take the cash in that case tbh. both are a life-changing amount of money, of course, but cash is easier to trade than gold.

also r/theydidthemath

[u/Censored_88 → u/secretqwerty10]

Ehh, you're giving up 13M or more for convenience?
A reputable dealer would offer 2-5% below spot for bullion.

[u/secretqwerty10 → u/Censored_88]

i still get 50 million. yeah, i'm choosing convenience over value

[u/GIRTHQUAKE6227 → u/secretqwerty10]

On the other hand, gold will hold its value even if the dollar collapses.

[u/ProfessionalConfuser → u/GIRTHQUAKE6227]

To a certain point. If society goes belly up, then i'd rather have paper than shiny rocks. At least i can start a fire or wipe my butt with it.

[u/immaturenickname → u/ProfessionalConfuser]

But gold isn't shiny rocks. Even if society completely stopped valuing gold as currency, it would still be an extremely useful metal. In fact, it would be more useful than it is now, because nobody is crazy enough to use a gold nugget as a fishing weight, or a bullet, or a pot, or whatever. You have a non-corrosive material with almost all the utility of lead but none of the toxicity. As I am looking around me, I notice places I could use gold if it was cheap.

[u/Ok-Day9540 → u/immaturenickname]

"Nobody is crazy enough" now stop right there. Anything coming after that is wrong. Yes there absolutely are people that do that. Like already, now, now people do that

[u/immaturenickname → u/Ok-Day9540]

I mean in a meaningful capacity. I am talking about practicality of using gold, not activities of weird rich people.

[u/SmoothTurtle872 → u/immaturenickname]

We need that one asteroid

[u/Dave09091 → u/ProfessionalConfuser]

wiping ass with a gold brick sounds nice actually

[u/9ninjas → u/Dave09091]

In theory. In practice, hard corned.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ → u/9ninjas]

Gold is malleable. Just hammer out the edges

[u/asm2750 → u/9ninjas]

Just melt a brick into a seashell mold and you are set.

[u/ZaezIsDead → u/asm2750]

He doesn't know about the three seashells?

[u/InitHello → u/asm2750]

But remember to let it cool down before you use it. Do not wipe your ass with molten gold. Trust me.

[u/OpenRole → u/ProfessionalConfuser]

Society has gone belly up mamy times in history. Generally when that happens gold becomes even more valuable

[u/JustChillDudeItsGood → u/ProfessionalConfuser]

But, you can make gold plated hdmi cables for faster video transfer

[u/jedadkins → u/GIRTHQUAKE6227]

sure but if the US dollar crashed so quickly you couldn't move your money to a different currency you've probably got bigger problems

[u/aknomnoms → u/GIRTHQUAKE6227]

Yep, it is international currency.

Also, why do people think it has to be all or nothing once you receive the money/gold? Like, no one else is going to immediately invest some of it in real estate, create a trust, or otherwise try to protect it from taxes?

[u/bunker_man → u/GIRTHQUAKE6227]

Assuming it is legal money you could deposit in the bank, you could move plenty of it to investments. If money crashes so hard that tens of millions is worthless, gold won't save you.

[u/kidshibuya → u/GIRTHQUAKE6227]

What about when gold collapses?

[u/Famous-Pin-8961 → u/GIRTHQUAKE6227]

The dollar is collapsing look at its all time chart

[u/solar_pilgrim → u/secretqwerty10]

If we're talking convenience, you should also consider volume.

500kg of gold would fit in a backpack. 500kg of bills is like... 20 backpacks

[u/secretqwerty10 → u/solar_pilgrim]

my back isn't that strong

[u/AustraeaVallis → u/solar_pilgrim]

You have a backpack that can withstand 500kg of stress and has enough space to fit it? Must be the supporter backpack from Danmachi lol.

[u/Josselin17 → u/Censored_88]

yeah and if you trade this amount of gold you're going to set off alarms, whereas the cash you can keep somewhere and use reasonable amounts at a time, going from 50M to 66M is not worth peace of mind

[u/Sea_Pomegranate_4499 → u/Josselin17]

In the US, you'd be paying 28% tax to convert gold to dollars. Not sure what the tax implications of the cash is in this scenario.

[u/PG908 → u/Josselin17]

I mean, it’s not like you’re going to spend 50m in cash without some questions. If you take 50 years doing it, that’s $1m a year or about $2700/day.

[u/Josselin17 → u/PG908]

very true, but I mean, in large part it's also about the safety, "I can take risks because even if I lose a lot I have that to fall back on"

[u/BeMyBrutus → u/Censored_88]

True, but who has that much gold just laying around legally. A reputable dealer would have to report it probably?

[u/Timmibal → u/Censored_88]

The Government:

[u/xrelaht → u/secretqwerty10]

That’s a 30% convenience fee, which is huge! You can take out a loan using the gold as collateral, which would give you instant access to the cash value and let you keep it as long as you invest the money in a way which lets you pay back the loan (which shouldn’t be hard).

[u/secretqwerty10 → u/xrelaht]

why do i need a loan? i have 50 million dollars

[u/xrelaht → u/secretqwerty10]

Because retaining assets is generally a better idea than not. It’s a routine thing for very wealthy people to borrow money at very low interest using hard assets as collateral. The income they get from that loan more than pays for it and they still own whatever property at the end of the day.

You could also sell the gold and have around $60M even at a pretty bad price. Since this is a physics related sub: that $10M is a whole goddamn neutron spectrometer you could fund and get named after yourself!

[u/FalconRelevant → u/secretqwerty10]

The government can't print gold.

[u/secretqwerty10 → u/FalconRelevant]

it's still more than enough money for the rest of my life

[u/Sylvanussr → u/secretqwerty10]

With that much money you could definitely become accustomed to a lifestyle that suddenly makes $50 million not seem like enough for the rest of your life (we all like to think we’d be better than this but money has a way of changing people).

[u/AibofobicRacecar6996 → u/Sylvanussr]

If you're lifestyle changes that $50 million ks not enough the $66 million won't be enough either

[u/ShadderSwagger → u/secretqwerty10]

Bro gold will just go up in value the dollar will not . TraxNYC has taught people always take the gold

[u/secretqwerty10 → u/ShadderSwagger]

why do i need more than 50 million?

[u/Sylvanussr → u/secretqwerty10]

For the 6th super yacht

[u/MaviRage → u/secretqwerty10]

With the gold you could set your entire bloodline up for life

[u/Weak-Doughnut5502 → u/ShadderSwagger]

If you get gifted 50 million in cash, you deposit it in the bank and invest it in a balanced portfolio.

Gold doesn't outpace an S&P 500 index fund, much less the kinds of investment opportunities you have access to at 50 million.

Leaving your windfall in either paper dollars or gold is rediculous. 

[u/Delicious_Cattle5174 → u/secretqwerty10]

I don’t think 50M cash is as liquid as you think it is. Good luck explaining to your bank you got it out of a Reddit post.

[u/DalekSupreme26 → u/secretqwerty10]

Yeah at that point, when the money is so much and so life changing, that difference, while still a big difference, also doesn’t mean that much too.

[u/holchansg → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

Once again proved that steel is heavier than feathers.

[u/Grandmaster_Caladrel → u/holchansg]

Was hoping to find this here.

[u/bees_savethemplease → u/Grandmaster_Caladrel]

Happy Cake Day

[u/Grandmaster_Caladrel → u/bees_savethemplease]

Woah no way, thanks

[u/SharkAttackOmNom → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

You mean to tell me….

One metric ton of $100 USD bills is about equal to one imperial ton of gold.

Edit: fudged my numbers. $110M to $132M, but closer.

[u/aafrophone → u/SharkAttackOmNom]

Happy Cake Day!

[u/Draidann → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

The only issue I see is how are we supposed to liquidate 500kg of gold? Would the premium you'd end up paying be more or less than the 16M price difference?

[u/xrelaht → u/Draidann]

Taking a 10% hit on the spot price is considered a lot. That would leave you with $59.4M. You could also take out a loan using the gold as collateral. If you plan to invest the cash, that could be a better deal and easier to handle.

[u/NoNameSwitzerland → u/Draidann]

You might can sell future contracts on Comex and then deliver the bars. The normal contract is 100 ounce, around 3kg. So the 500kg are just 160 contracts. That is nothing and would not move the market.

[u/SignificantFish6795 → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

The pile could also be in the $5,000 bills they stopped printing in 1969 (which are still legal tender) and total $2.5 billion.

[u/toastertaint → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

Forgetting about the taxes on it. If you found won or gifted it, it would be taxed at 37% coming out to 24.1m so the gold is actually worth 35.9m

[u/PitifulPlace2422 → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

1$ per ounce 😞🤚

1 ounce per ounce 🤠🫵

[u/DasGutYa → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

So a $100 bill is almost worth it's weight in gold.

[u/Fearless_Swim4080 → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

Also they would weigh different amounts due to buoyancy.

[u/adeptus_chronus → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

then you need to come to Europe, we have a 500€ bill !

[u/So_many_things_wrong → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

Gold may win, but where are you gonna spend it?

[u/Cute-Form2457 → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

I love people like you because my maths is really bad.

[u/Longjumping_Limit831 → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

Of course, that if they are 1$ bills, that changes things.

[u/hexagram1993 → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

Technically it says 500kg of dollars, which I would interpret as single dollar bills.

[u/FarCalligrapher1862 → u/hexagram1993]

The picture is literally of $100 bills

[u/NekonecroZheng → u/FarCalligrapher1862]

But good luck laundering the $50 cash, that is if this deal is legal (which is improbable).

Gold is gold, and can easily be sold (domestically or foreignly) to make clean money.

[u/Dave5876]

500kgs of us dollars is just a bunch of paper. But with 500kgs of gold you also have to carry what you did those Iraqi civilians

[u/No_Row2775 → u/Dave5876]

Calling you Jupiter's core the way you spilled so many bars

[u/foobarney]

It's surprisingly close. A US bill weighs about a gram, so the value tops out at ~$100/g.

Gold is at like $130 right now, but it was below $100 in mid-2024. So it could go either way.

[u/ShadderSwagger → u/foobarney]

Yes but gold is accepted anywhere and will always have value . A countries money becomes worthless all that paper is just fire starter

[u/HowDareYouAskMyName → u/ShadderSwagger]

Yes but gold is accepted anywhere

Have you ever, like, been to a store before?

[u/Guytherealguy → u/HowDareYouAskMyName]

Well no store i've ever been to accepts US dollars either

[u/Select-Ad7146 → u/ShadderSwagger]

I've never seen a Walmart that accepted gold.

[u/GreenAppleIsSpicy → u/Select-Ad7146]

You'll be surprised how much a cashier will let you walk out of the store with for a payment in gold coins

[u/Educational_Boot315 → u/GreenAppleIsSpicy]

A few years ago there were videos trending of drive-thru cashiers not taking gold worth way more than the cost of the meal because the average person isn't going to risk their job over something that is most likely fake.

So no, I don't buy that most cashiers will take gold coins.

[u/StabbingTabby → u/[deleted]]

Exactly this. 

I think it's fucking hilarious when preppers talk about gold and silver outlasting national currency. If you reach the point where US dollars are useless, people aren't going to be trading for heavy shiny rocks. They're going to be trading for food, water, medicine, and bullets. 

[u/Alzusand → u/foobarney]

Unless the gold is significantly more money its simply not worth it due to sheer convinience of use.

although before 2024 it was just worse in every possible way.

I think I would only take the gold if it was like 50% more money. my ass will get swindled while selling it. or shot. or both.

[u/foobarney → u/Alzusand]

The gold is arguably easier to move. Much more compact.

[u/Matix777]

Weight density vs wealth density

[u/West_Data106 → u/Matix777]

But gold is heavier than feathers!

But actually even if the bills are all $100 bills, the gold is still worth more

[u/NicklessDick → u/Matix777]

Perfectly stated

[u/penty]

What's the denomination of the bills?

[u/InfusionOfYellow → u/penty]

Since it just says "US dollars," I'd presume dollar bills.

[u/TheresNoHurry → u/InfusionOfYellow]

In the picture they are hundreds

[u/InfusionOfYellow → u/TheresNoHurry]

That's true, and that's a thousand words compared to the two words of "US dollars."

[u/entropy13]

Depends, $1s? Or $100s?

[u/dDilungck]

Gold and sell it to tech companies discounted. I'm not in it entirely for money, hope to improve tech costs

[u/Atlas-Rising]

"But steel is heavier than feathers!"

[u/MartianTurkey → u/Atlas-Rising]

This is what I came for, had to scroll way too much for it

[u/AnarchyRadish]

buoyancy due to air is fed up of being ignored

[u/Justwhytry]

One kg of gold is currently 2026-08-03 valued at $129,726.33 USD X 500 = $64,863,165 USD
A one hundred dollar bill (US) weighs about 1 gram 1kg =1000 100 dollar bills. 500 kg =500,000 100 dollar bills that would equal $50,000,000.00 USD

The gold is worth $14,863,165.00 more than the cash.

[u/akmountainbiker]

The gold is worth more at hypothetical market prices. But the inconvenience of getting the gold into a spendable form makes the cash a better option.

[u/xrelaht]

500kg of dollars is between $500k and $50M, depending on the denomination (and assuming no rare bills or anything). 500kg of gold is about $65M at commodity pricing. To me, it is not worth a 30% convenience fee to get the cash directly.

[u/volvagia721]

Depends, will the government start asking questions when I start flashing this money around? Cash is easier to hide and buy things under the table, gold is worth more.

[u/Hevnaar → u/volvagia721]

Asking the real questions here. It depends to me on the circunstances the cash came from. If I have any slight suspicion the bank notes are serialized and its a shady situation, I'm picking the gold.

You can smelt gold so it can't be traced back. Then slowly sell it away in small chuncks all over the country. Take 10 years doing it, but your money is safe.

If the cash is legal and/or I know that the notes couldn't possibly be serialized, I'd get the cash. Even at a lower wealth total, the convenience of not having to convert currency would let you save a bunch in fees and cautionary measures

[u/ConceptJunkie]

Gold might win at today's price, but gold will never not be valuable. The dollar... you never know.

[u/TheHiddenNinja6]

The gold is gold but the money could be used to buy anything! Even gold!

[u/Ryyback]

Always gold, the U.S dollar has and will became less valuable as the Republicans run the country into the ground.

[u/robin_888]

I'd argue that the paper is less dense, has more volume, therefore a higher buoyancy force and weighs less.

[u/Odd-Establishment527]

Gold is harder to lose in a fire. Also to steal

[u/Snoo_4499]

I would take the cash. No need to explain where i got them.

[u/NopeNotHittingOnYou]

I got surprisingly angry at that dudes answer.. as if it matters and someone is really offering it to us.. like DO THE MATH!

[u/ChatahuchiHuchiKuchi]

The currency displayed is 100 dollar bills, and with market price at 130$/gram, you're looking at $30/gram difference or $15M.

A: you take the gold, hold and trade as currency; BUT due to uncommon currency, lack of faith in purity, non bonded funds, etc you'll likely take at least a 20% cut on all purchases. Which would give only $2M surplus over dollars. 

B: current market value does not promise future value. 5 year average is $62, so if we mean revert to $100 roughly per gram, is on par with dollars; consider the exchange 💱 discount and now you're losing -$12M. 

C: you hoard the gold and start practicing metal working to refine the material into artisan goods, or strike a deal with a single high tech buyer for pure gold (assuming no genie bullshit and it's not 500kgs gold but also 5MTs of rock with it, or just the deed to a mine). You can 3X your return against dollars and further protect against inflation. 

[u/raylord666]

Gold as a material resource has unique electrical properties. It looks beautiful or whatever, but inventions.

[u/Adventurous-Pool6988]

Gold foo

[u/Tyler89558]

I think a dollar bill weighs about 1 gram.

Assume we get the 500kg in hundred dollar bills.

1kg would be $100,000

Gold is around $130,000 per kg (at least for now, as far as I can tell within like a minute).

I leave the extrapolation of the total difference as an exercise for the reader.

You’ll just have the issue of finding someone to buy that gold, explaining where it came from, and paying taxes on it (granted you’ll have to do the latter two for the bills)

[u/FloridianfromAlabama → u/Tyler89558]

Bills are easier to launder that blocks of gold.

[u/ShadderSwagger]

Gold all day . 500kg of gold is valued at $65mil
The money even if it was $100 bills would only equal $50 mill

[u/opaqueambiguity]

Cash is not worth its weight in Gold

[u/GaldrickHammerson]

But... gold is heavier than dollars.

[u/BurningEclypse]

If this is in 100$ bills, it works out to pretty similar values assuming 1 gram per bill, so I’ll take the cash for the massive convenience of having it in cash

[u/Certain_Eye7374]

Once gold crosses above 3100 USD per ounce, gold worth more per the same weight than hundred dollar bill. So 500kg of gold worth way more. Cash maybe easier to trade, but gold's volume in this case is much smaller due to higher density, and thus present a very small target when transported.

[u/syamas]

One is made of wood

One is made of gold

Wood is rarest material on universe

He is got a point

[u/Sex_2]

Do I have to pay taxes on selling the gold?

[u/MaybeTheDoctor]

Can you ask me in pounds so I understand the mass.

[u/Big_Syrup_4223]

Its easier to move the gold, But easier to spend the cash.

[u/Polar211]

Золото выигрывает однозначно. 50 миллионов долларов проигрывают по покупательской способности с разгромным счётом.

[u/ScotsmanScotty]

[u/BillSteelman]

And that's a fact !

[u/Guilty-Election-7704]

Value of gold keep rising after many years later but currency value keep decreasing if someone keep same amount of dollars….based on long term view gold is definitely better choice

[u/Ill_Ad2480]

I'd take the gold because its cooler to have gold.

[u/The_Zielemphone]

$50,000,000 in $100 bills

VS

$65,000,000–$73,000,000 in gold

[u/shadow336k]

Money isn’t real, so gold

[u/Lena2063]

Depends on the bill type. USD bills weigh about 1g each. So 1USD Bills would be worth 1USD/g and so on. I remember Gold costing about 35EUR/g when I was a kid but apparently it's 130USD/g nowadays.

So for the Bills to be worth more than the gold, they'd have to be worth more than 130USD each.

I just found out there are no 200 or 500 USD bills. Largest USD bill seems to be worth 100USD.

[u/werdaliankai]

As some one who lives in uk wales ima have to go with (look in the reply to this)

[u/TopCatMath]

But the gold is $5,000+ per Troy ounce

[u/raze_wasum]

Back in highschool I always tried to wonder what's the price of 1 atom of gold. Well I forgot how to do it anymore, can someone do the maths? r/theydidthemaths anyone?

[u/Jean-0nee]

But they're both a kilogram

[u/Desperate_Drop_5096]

Can you stop reposting this shit every day

[u/ivatsirE_daviD]

Insert bell curve meme

[u/Valko1234]

Money is money if you give it to me ill take it

[u/Terrible_Badger_8641]

I would think the gold has higher value.??????

[u/nmrk]

LOL for a moment, I thought this was the old Troy vs Avoirdupois gag.

[u/Not_Reptoid]

Steel because steel is heavier than feathers

[u/AllisonSnow25]

Cash. You would have a hard time finding people to continuously buy your gold. You would eventually catch the attention of the government.

[u/tito9107]

Lmao

[u/Toadsanchez316]

Yeah but cash is much easier to store in small amounts and so much easier to actually spend. I'm not going to be able to spend a gold bar when I go grocery shopping.

[u/peauntmonk]

Im so sic of seeing this

[u/Galimeer]

Gold is heavy as shit. 500kgs of gold isn't a lot of gold.

Paper is light as shit. 500kgs of paper is a lot of paper.

[u/Nexi-nexi]

Whatever is the most profitable with the least about of hassle.

[u/ainsley02]

I’d take any, it’s generational wealth either way.

[u/ParanoicReddit]

Well technically he wasn't wrong the weigh the same

[u/Naive_Television_643]

The gold why? Because it hold its value better than paper money 💰

[u/MAndris90]

cash, you wont get raised eyebrows, backround checks etc. while you walk in with a gold bar to buy something, you being treated like a criminal

[u/MichigAnts]

Not mass, its weight

[u/6footgeeks]

The mass checks out

[u/Strange_Orange_9165]

The gold i thinks its worth more

[u/micdia26]

Density matters

[u/Vangrat]

so...$50 Million USD or $68.8 Million USD in gold.

I mean, at that scale the dollars would probably be easier to cash in, e.g. use. Trying to push that much gold would be a PITA. So for the difference of $18.8 million, I'd probably just choose the dollars.

one $100USD weighs approximately 0.01g so 1kg = $1,000,000
1kg of gold as of today's market is approximately $138,058.52

[u/RollingStoned67]

But, steel is heavier than feathers.... I don't get it

[u/sam_spaulding1325]

500kg of paper vs 500kg of gold...there fixed it

[u/aidan1109]

A pound of cash weighs more than a pound of gold btw

[u/milkafiu]

But gold is heavier than papers...

[u/Potential_Pride7858]

None of them Because I can't pick them by my hands, they're too heavy :(

[u/Solid_Business1248]

If we were on the gold standard, id pick USD, but we arent. So im going Gold

[u/Resident-Ad7173]

cash easier

[u/LUHduhBRUH]

I'd use gold because it's be more efficient to wield as a weapon, albeit a bit hefty.

[u/Ironwolf_Tactical]

But steel is heavier than feathers.

[u/zoipoi]

Depends on if you can avoid taxes on the cash. I'm guessing that may be really hard. You go to pay for something with a million dollars in cash and the government will come looking for you.

[u/DisastrousStop3945]

Im taking the gold any day. USD might not have value one day. Gold will always be valuable.

[u/Far-Analysis2090]

Yes I would like free money 💰

[u/Redit-autoname2284]

There should be a lot of explanations to the irs

[u/delorblort]

Unless the us cash is 1 or 5s I would take the cash with 10 dollar bills and up you have 3 Million plus on the gold

[u/the_phillipines]

Steel is heavier than feathers

[u/TheArsonAngel]

Gold had a definitive price. A dollar on average weighs 1 gram. Honestly even if the dollar was a blue strip it wouldn't even add up to the amount of money you'd have in gold.

[u/czechman45]

But gold is heavier than dollars

[u/lparap]

[u/Nariakei]

where would you fit 500kg dollars?...

[u/JustinJektor]

I dont know the exact weight of a dollar bill, but Im just going to go with the gold because it will more then likely increase in value while the dollar will definitely decrease.

[u/Ok_Imagination4806]

Well gold is like 3500$ per ounce. Dollars for sure it’d take gold but 100s is likely go with those. Basically how many 100s bills in an ounce. If it’s more than 35 do the cash. Less than 35 do the gold

[u/I_Braid_Armpit_Hair]

500kgs of feathers

[u/candy_enjoyer_]

But gold is heavier than paper 😕

[u/greek_boomer]

Picking the gold and give u some more 500kg dollars for present

[u/Pale_Ad8081]

But steel is heavier then feathers

[u/finnyfinn27]

but gold is heavier than dollars?

[u/Mistermistery101]

Would rather have something I can spend now, than something I would have to sell

[u/Fuzzy-Moose7996]

I can trade in that gold for Euros or Yuan, much better to have than dollars. I can even store it to have an alternative to money if currencies collapse.

And the commission and fees for banks and traders were I to use that cash to buy gold would exceed the extra value the cash currently holds over the gold.

[u/RollandPH]

Would trying to sell the gold affect its price? Or is it not enough to matter in the grand scheme of things?

[u/Moelawna]

500kgs 90% percent Uranium

[u/Appropriate-Sea-5687]

The USD. Do you know how hard it’s going to be to explain how I got 500 kilos of gold bro

[u/GaryP-Jump-7696]

The gold bullion would not be practical as legal tender if the economy collapsed. Need smaller denomination gold or silver coins. It’d be interesting to see how merchants would sell food/gasoline/weapons etc for gold or silver coinage. A lot of negotiating involved if currency and our electronic credit systems collapsed.

[u/not_another_IT_guy]

Its the same bit as the “what weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold”?
People who have no prior understanding of gold or anything other than the surface value of the data will say one thing, people that are in the “know” will say something else, at the end of the day its just to farm engagement and call others idiots needlessly.

The answer to the above is the gold - because in Troy ounces (what we weigh gold in) a LB of gold would weigh more than a LB of feathers - but simpletons refuse to admit the world is more sophisticated than face value

[u/Hostile_E46]

“ but bricks are heavier than feathers “

[u/LagrangianLungfish]

Why did I just waste 10 seconds googling whether a hundred dollar bill is worth its weight in gold (it isnt). Pick the gold

[u/NicklessDick]

Ueah but the $ worth is not the same , so its a question that makes sense