MIDAS - Fairy Tale Vintage Comic Book 

A happy ending! Did the original story end like this? I don't think it did. But the story of King Midas has certain morals to it, but sometimes you need to be a little more explicit about it. The most obvious point is that gold or money is pretty much intrinsically worthless. Money is a medium of exchange, and its value lies in what goods and services you can exchange it for. Another point that's not so obvious is that gold is a good form of money because it is relatively scarce with a limited quantity, among its other features that make it good for money. If King Midas turned too many things into gold, then gold would no longer be scarce and would be devalued as a medium of exchange. A lot of people seem to favor government fiat money (like the US Federal Reserve Notes) and scorn commodities like gold for money precisely because they can just produce more fiat money any time they like with no natural limit. They've failed to learn the second point that limits and scarcity help make money more useful and valuable. They've failed to learn that monetary inflation leads to price inflation, and causes a variety of harms in our economy. Heady stuff for a fairy tale maybe, but then we're *supposed* to learn lessons from them!

King Midas has donkey's ears!