WHAT IS WORTH WHAT, HOW AND WHY?

 Out of necessity a network of networks, a Coalition of the Willing (COTW) that is coming together to better facilitate BETTER UNDERSTANDINGS and offer a wider range of options for PLACEmaking for precincts, neighbourhoods and communities on the KanamalukaTAMAR/ESK in a local, regional national and indeed a global context.

Not only is this COTW everyone within it, those in connected groups might best understood as a place's Community of Ownership and Interest. Bureaucratic administrations want to call these people "stakeholders" and that is only a relevant understanding IF groups of people have direct financial in a place, space, entity, whatever but 'placedness' is a more expansive idea than anything that can be defined by and measured in 'money terms'.

Property investors' and developers' purposefulness is to acquire places and spaces in order to fulfil their primary objective, generate profits.

To help put this in a perspective and ask yourself what is the 'purpose' in mining gold? 

1. Is it make a profit? or
2. Is it acquire a resource called gold?

It takes but a moment to understand that unless one acquires the resource no profit can be made IF gold has a money value.

AND there is yet another 'purpose' that might be considered. For instance the Incas of Southern Americas' purpose in mining gold was to appease and honour the GODS.  The Inca considered gold to be the "sweat of the sun" (Inti), regarding it as divine, immortal, and a symbol of the sun's power. It was used for religious, decorative, and status-enhancing, not commercial, purposes.

Based on historical estimates, the gold mined by the Incas constitutes a very small, negligible percentage of the total gold ever mined in human history.

Nonetheless, the amount of gold taken from the Inca Empire by the Spanish was enormous for the 16th century, it is dwarfed by modern industrial mining, with roughly 86% of all above-ground gold having been extracted in the last 200 years.

Here is a breakdown of the context:

• Total Gold in Existence: As of 2020, about 201,296 tonnes of gold have been mined throughout human history.
• Inca Gold Volume: The vast majority of the "Inca treasure" was accumulated over generations, not mined in a single short period. 
• Estimates suggest the Spanish plundered over 100 tons of gold from the Americas in the first half-century of conquest.
• Significance: While the Inca gold represented a massive portion of the world's circulating gold in 1532—allegedly 14 times greater than all the gold in Europe at that time—it represents far less than 0.1% of the total cumulative global gold stock of over 200,000 tonnes.

While by-and-large the world's investors and developers might think of this  200,000 tonnes of gold as wealth their real wealth is invested in the control of other resources – multiple and various ... power. As an 'element' gold's utility is marginal say compared to iron, carbon, indeed silver. Yet there is a Gold Standard. 

Approximately 10% of all gold mined throughout human history is considered lost, unrecoverable, or permanently scattered back into the environment. However by comparison silver is an interesting element.

Approximately 1.74 million metric tons of silver have been mined throughout human history, with roughly 560,000 metric tons of identified, economically minable reserves remaining in the Earth's crust. While over 60 billion ounces have been extracted, much of this has been lost, consumed, or is held in non-bullion forms.

So, arguably critical thinkers need to apply some thinking time to the values invested in 'placedness' and require their 'representatives' and 'governors' to do so as well. If morality and ethics enter the considerations then Gandhi has something to say and muse upon