The explanation is simple. My 11 year old niece, saw this and after the first one said are they just stupid? This was from my 11 year old niece. Of course my wife and I have taken time since she was old enough to think to educate her on work, value and economics.

So back to the explanation:

1) Poor education from Parents (PERIOD)
2) A generation of people who have been so indoctrinated into the "instant gratification", i.e. McDonalds mentality. NOW NOW NOW< GIMME GIMME GIMME.

Even the one person who recognized the silver bar was worth more, said I am not sure what I would do with it, and never thought, Gee there is a pawn shop behind me I can sell it there get cash buy 10 chocolate bars and put the rest in savings someplace. I call it the McDonalds mentality.

He must be mining the same crowd as Jay Leno did in Jaywalking.

I can't help but notice that having a Facebook account (such is needed to view this topic) is the price of admission to more and more content (some admittedly useful) portraying our cultural and political sclerosis and mass insanity. But it is what it is. Try telling your friends you don't have a Facebook account and then learn what the word "shun" means. For me, I have one under a nom de plume with a fake photo of a famous western movie character known for his out of date views, and I regularly delete the garbage that shows up even then. Ah, Bartleby, ah, humanity.

He cracks me up. I'm a fan.

Proof that lemmings have 2 legs....this could go back to that religious discussion we were having, where the guy said that since the sun comes up it is proof that something happens (or along those lines). The fact that these people are this dense must be proof lemmings have 2 legs.Very disturbing.

Actually, the guy is maybe someone we would like, he is a political activist and commentator, who is trying to illustrate the terrible state of peoples awareness today. Some of his videos are actually pretty funny, like the one where he is getting people to sign a petition to increase inflation to 100%, and by golly, they did. The lemmings are coming, the lemmings are coming.....

See below re: #4. He tried that and the fish still didn't bite.Only he had a 1oz gold coin.

I guess this guy is simulating Watters from Bill OReilly.He actually had a 1 oz gold coin (worth 1100.00 then) he was selling for 50.00. No takers. Wish I had found him...

https://www.youtube.com/user/MarkDice...

I just realized he was right outside a blessed coin shop. There goes explanation #3.

If they'd forgo a 10oz bar of silver for a Hershey bar, what would they do for a Klondike ba?

Assuming this is real, I have no explanation for their behavior. Guesses:
1. They doubt the silver is real. If so, though, wouldn't they fear the chocolate bar had been tampered with?
2. They feel like someone offering them $150 is too good to be true and must be stolen, a scam, or something dodgy. If so, though, why would they accept anything from the guy offering stolen silver?
3. They earn a high hourly rate in the $150 an hour range, and it's simply not woth their time or their personal assitants' time to go to a coin shop to turn the silver into money or something else they want. This argument rings true for a 1 oz silver coin, but it's hard to imagine for 10 oz. They could just hold on to it until they happened to meet someone who wanted silver or went by a coin shop.
4. They've heard of silver being used as a conductor and in utensils, so they assume its value is similar to copper. If this is true, they should repeat the experiment with a 1/10 oz piece of gold or platinum.

None of the guesses are satisfying.

There brains melt faster then the chocolate.