New to Frankfurt Airport – a vending machine which dispenses gold bars.
The prototype was trialed at Frankfurt Airport and is now being rolled out to 500 locations around Germany. It can dispense 1g, 5g & 10g gold bars/coins. The 1g wafer thin piece sells for around US42 and the 10g bar for $US341. However the price is updated every 2 minutes to reflect the gold price.
Given the premium on the smaller weights its not really an investment as much as a novelty or unique gift idea.
The frustration with institutions isn’t wrong. But the explanation usually is. The problem isn’t political will or institutional timidity. It’s a design built for a world that no longer exists.
Efficiency built the care systems we have. It is not sufficient to sustain them through what’s coming. The pressures arriving into health and aged care are structural, not cyclical, and the response needs to match.
The model is sound. The assumptions have been stress-tested. And the project is still harder to deliver than the numbers suggested. The problem isn’t the modelling. It’s what the model assumes about the world.