Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Golden Ticket

Everyone knows about the Golden Ticket found by Charlie in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Finding a Golden ticket meant that you won a chance to take a tour of the famous and mysterious factory, and the search for the ticket is a major plot device in the movie.

This is what the ticket said:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wonka-Golden-Ticket-FRIDGE-MAGNET-Willy-Wonka-chocolate-factory-entry-ticket-/311911595899

Lately I have been marveling at the prevalence of gold EVERYWHERE in culture. Take a look around you next time you are anywhere, and I mean anywhere.

Start keeping track of the times you see the word “gold” and you will see what I mean. Here is an example: https://steemit.com/story/@goldmatters/costco-chaos-search-for-gold-with-the-goldmatters

Back to Charlie. (Cheer up charlie... I haven’t forgotten about you)

The Golden Ticket, although a huge part of the movie, isn’t the only instance of precious metals in Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

Did anyone notice that Charlie paid for the Golden Ticket bar with..... silver??

Thats right, Charlie found Austria Maria Theresa Silver Thaler in the drain.

This coin has quite a bit of silver content, about 23.38 grams. This is what the coin looks like up close:

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Normally I would frown on Charlie for using a piece of silver to purchase chocolate, but in this case it works out for him, earning him a chocolate factory that presumably throws off significant cash flow.

Although Charlie demonstrates financial recklessness by gambling that a random bar of chocolate will yield him the Golden Ticket during a time where his family could have used the money to feed themselves, we will forgive him based on the eventual outcome.

Here is a more modern example of real life people choosing chocolate over silver:

The other instance of precious metals in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is when Veruca Salt loses her stuff over the golden egg laying geese.

While it seems like these golden geese eggs are actually chocolate, Veruca Salt insists upon having one, and this ultimately leads to her demise:

So silver: good.

Chocolate : better.

Golden Geese: good, but don’t get too greedy

The morale of the story here related to precious metals seems to be....

1. If you find it on the ground, forget about Greshams Law (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law) and spend it as quickly as possible.

2. Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg, and don’t try to buy them from Mr. Wonka, or you might end up in the furnace.

We can all surmise that Mr. Wonka was a gold bug and had a diabolical plan to lead Charlie down a precious metals path, encouraging him and ushering him into a Dollar Cost Savings plan buying gold and silver to prepare him for his retirement years.

Or maybe there was no lesson.

Maybe it was just....

A movie!

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