10 Things Worth More Than a Pound of Gold | Frankly 106
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Frankly, Nate weighs the value of a pound of gold with other things that we derive worth from in our lives – from dollars and bitcoin to...less pecuniary markers. Although gold is simply a metal, it has long been a symbol of wealth in human cultures. Through highlighting other important, sometimes intangible forms of wealth, Nate encourages the viewer to not only examine what they place the most worth on in their own lives, but also to consider why things have worth to us as humans living in a complex, modern system.
What contributes to the real wealth of your life – and can it be measured and held, or is it something more intangible? And finally, how might our definitions of wealth change if we were -as individuals and as a culture - to fully appreciate the miracle that is human life and connection with one another and the natural world?
(Recorded August 31, 2025)
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| 0:00.0 | What is more valuable than a pound of gold? |
| 0:05.0 | You are? |
| 0:06.0 | Are you more valuable than a pound of gold? |
| 0:11.0 | Gold is in the news. |
| 0:13.0 | It made an all-time high last week. |
| 0:17.0 | And this shiny metal has always held a special place in our minds, in human history. |
| 0:24.6 | It doesn't rust. |
| 0:25.6 | It doesn't corrode. |
| 0:26.6 | And it shines the same way it has for thousands of years. |
| 0:32.6 | And humans in the past and today have considered it variously wealth, security, even beauty itself. |
| 0:43.1 | But what if there are things more valuable, even far more valuable than gold? |
| 0:50.9 | Things we sometimes overlook because they can't be locked in a vault or measured on a scale. |
| 0:57.0 | What is more valuable than a pound of gold? |
| 1:01.0 | Okay, so number 10, $50,000 in cash. |
| 1:18.0 | That is a little bit worth more than gold today at $3,500 an ounce. |
| 1:25.1 | It's worth more than a pound of gold. Cash feels powerful. You can walk into almost any |
| 1:31.3 | store, any airport, any casino, any marketplace, and trade cash for something physical, for something |
| 1:40.3 | real. But money, as history shows, and as we're repeating history now boils down |
| 1:48.8 | to trust in a system. Numbers on screen, paper or linen backed by confidence and backed by |
| 1:59.2 | energy surplus and the complexity of our civilization. |
| 2:02.9 | But history shows that currencies rise and fall, sometimes fast, inflation, debt, energy |
| 2:10.8 | decline can erode the power of cash overnight. |
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