Talk:Hiroshi Sato/@comment-98.234.54.148-20120519221318/@comment-3071223-20120519234421

"Even in Real Life platinum is more common than, say, gold. It's just needed in so many electrical appliances that it's price is higher. Since relatively few electronics still exist in the world, larger amounts would probably be just lying around, not yet seen as all that valuable by most people. In the 18th century plantinum was sometimes treated as little more than garbage, if you can believe that."

I dunno how true this is, I pulled it from Tvtropes.

But food for thought.