Worst Advice in a Gold Rush? Selling Pickaxes — Try Railways Instead
dreamwieber · x · 2026-10-25
james406 jokes that selling pickaxes in a gold rush is the worst advice since everyone does it — go upstream: sell wood and iron to pickaxe makers, grow trees, buy mountains, or better yet invent the concept of wood and iron. dreamwieber's quoted reply delivers the punchline: "I'd go with railroads and telegraphs."
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