Gold is a better conductor than copper and gold also does not corrode. So they actually are better cables, since the thing the cable does is made significantly easier and less prone to failure when the wires and connectors are gold and not copper or some other metal that doesn’t conduct electricity as well.

I was a comment fiend on Reddit, and now I shall be one on Lemmy. And it’s so much easier to be king of the comments when the comments are mostly empty. 😏