Ethical gold and its price - is it worth buying?

ethical gold this is a mental label, in my opinion, deliberately misleading, because gold, although noble, does not even have a mind, not to mention ethics. It's about the ethics of exploration, the ethics of mining in relation to the environment and the people working in the mines. It all started with ethical coffee or cotton, now ethics has touched gold. This is interesting because gold doesn't have to be mined as much as sugar beets or aluminum ores. I am concerned that aluminum mining is causing more environmental degradation and that more people are finding work there than in the gold mines. But aluminum is needed by everyone every day, and gold is the chosen one, which of course is affected by the price of gold and the fact that it is more difficult to buy.

Gold prices "fair trade"

The phenomenon of work ethics emerged a few years ago. In English, this is called “fair trade”, a kind of “fair play”, but not on the sports ground, but in the relationship between the employer and the employee. This is based on the fact that the employee works honestly and the employer pays fairly. Very simple relationship, such idyllic socialism. And people will believe.

Do we already know how to mine and where to buy gold?

While the coffee and cotton markets have been successful, the gold market is now the most important. Educational institutions were built a long time ago - designers do not create beautiful decorations, but ethical ones. Education also includes feature films ("Blood Diamond"), which are referenced by fair trade advocates whenever possible. Because "fair trade" isn't just about gold. Jewelry is not only gold. And the stones? And those bloody diamonds that mercenaries and rebels pay with? And how can you wear a diamond ring that's supposed to have the blood of innocent children on it? And to fix it they installed Responsible Jewelry Council (RJC), an organization and, of course, a non-profit. Belonging to it allows the member companies to inform you that the gold in the jewelry they produce is ethical and that diamonds have not even seen blood in the eyes. Information about the RJC and that it is "non-commercial" is given after "Polish Jeweler". I didn't check. However, it's worth a little bit of work and looking for a reliable, trustworthy jewelry store where we can evaluate, sell and buy gold.

What's going on here? Should you buy gold?

I'm just asking because it's not hard to guess that it's all about the money. The article doesn't explicitly state this, but we can learn that ethical shoppers who buy "ethical jewelry" pay about 10% more for believing that the children of an African or South American miner go to school, not to work, but the miner earns at least 95% of the minimum wage. Why not 100%, if this is still the minimum wage?

Ethics in Poland, where to buy gold?

In Poland, we have three large trading and manufacturing companies, where in all cases their jewelry keeps silent about ethics. The secret, however, is revealed by small online retailers who advertise their products like this: “It seems to me that the third world is the third, because it is based on exploitation. Well, maybe I messed something up. There are also large and small companies that do not import jewelry from cheap foreign manufacturers, and all sales are based on their own production. The companies employ Polish workers and I believe they pay them over 95% of the minimum wage. So why doesn't "Polish Jeweler" write and promote the Polish jewelry industry, ethical, based on jewelry made in Poland and not imported from the "third world"?