Twas I who fucked the dragon,

Fuck-a-lie, sing fuck-a-loo!

And if you don’t believe me then,

I shall fuck you tooooo!

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.