Comradeship // Freechat

Thats not how money works tho. U cant just convert gold into modern value and say he was the richest ever. If you brought a glock back to that time itd be worth more then all his gold combined to the people then. He had lots of gold sure but lots of gold only gets you so far. Thats why he was just throwing it around. He wasnt generous he just didnt need it. Itd be like if you had an unlimited supply of burritos. Youd be giving everyone you met burritos cuz its not like u can eat them all yourself.

Back then trade was pretty limited. Ya he could buy lots of stuff with his gold, but the logistics of that time would be a big limiter. Someone today worth say 100 million has a lot more functional ability to purchase things then mansa musa did.

There is a point at which having more gold just doesnt make you any richer in actuality. Sure numerically if you have 400 billion $ of gold your richer then if you have 300 billion $ of gold, but back then at that point its just rocks. Just like how the towns he went to and tossed gold around the value of gold collapased there his own gold had a much lower value due to the sheer supply.

Its similar to how people say an asteroid may have 3 trillion$ of platinum in it. Sure now it does but as soon as you mine the asteroid and that platinum floods the market its gonna be worth a lot less. So whoever goes and mines the asteroid isnt actually gonna have 3 trillion $.

Even if you teleported Mansa Musa to modern day with all his gold as soon as he starts selling it the value of gold is gonna plummet. He is rich no doubt, but the dollar value of the gold itself is just sensationalism.