Now if coal shouldn't cost more than gold - they never do. Interesting how the honest workers get coal while each pragmatic one aims at gold!? That being the reality - apart what most corporations mean, and many 3rd world states already function as corporations in their being privatised at each levels of "governance" and not the kinds that mark corporations - well!? My mother lives in one such hell-hole called India - of the privatized backward state. With everyone aiming for the gold, and not via salaries or profits via trade-offs in bonafide products - the idea that economy survives upon bonafide products & bonafide transactions - maybe it makes sense. To talk of economics & society - given the dependence of economies upon the word "BONAFIDE". Whose descriptions could change in bonafide manners. But the word remains "Bonafide". Guess if coal need not be more expensive than gold - we can't cook in gold now. Can we? That would be economics but many do and success is being bonafide in that. Except - when you set the rules of what marks "Bonafide". And cook in gold! My poor infirm old mother! To think that as an old graduate she survives - medicare and all that - upon 1600/- INR by the way of two pensions she receives. And pays 1200/- for rent in the shanty she occupies. Often looking at the picture of my late father & her hanging in front of her. He taught in a school but did much more before that (and even during) and actually represented his state as a young army reservist at the national forum. Each state had given one cadet to train for mountain combat. My late father was the one from the state of Bihar, then. Even if linguistically different. Those kinds of ordinary folks one talks about even if my mother counts the family of Subhas Chandra Bose as familiar via her mother's family. I did meet that grand uncle once at his home in Kolkata - the Manash Kusum Banerjee - helped till his Master's degree by Sarat Bose, the uncle of Subhas Chandra Bose! Those kind of ordinary folks and values, etc. that go in feeding the honest workers for the "bonafide" ideas of state and economy. It's coal but in bonafide systems - of which the economy forms a part of. See my last post! Never understood anything at all, but I guess the word bonafide does it!