You don’t understand what gold is being used for, it’s insurance against government printing and is impossible to forge and hard to steal if your not stupid and actually pay for security, unlike things like bitcoin. Its used as the currency for century’s for a reason and is often fallen back upon as a last resort for a reason. Silver isn’t because it’s not as fininite but is good as a more ubiquidous self backed currency for the same reason, just more for the common man.
The reason golds value is so high is because it is the price of combine debts that verious fiat deal could cover over all these years, that’s why it’s so high. When a debt can’t be covered in cash, gold is often sold to make up the diffrence, over time that has caused its price to rise due to it being represented against these assets, it seems people can’t get enough of the shiny metal.
I understand it fine. At least the parts of what you said that are true anyway. Much of it is false but even if it weren’t, I think you’re misunderstanding my meaning.
Gold being used as a currency is ascribing to it an artificial value. It is no different than say, printing a number on a piece of paper and saying that paper is now valuable. It’s a rock that we take out of the ground. If we tried as hard to dig up gold as we do digging up oil, we might eventually dig it all up in a few thousand years.
Oil has value because we use it for all kinds of crap. It’s so useful we also trade it because it’s valuable. This is true of every other commodity. Gold has so far outpaced its actual industrial value it’s functionally just another currency, victim to the same manipulations as any other currency.
You don’t understand what gold is being used for, it’s insurance against government printing and is impossible to forge and hard to steal if your not stupid and actually pay for security, unlike things like bitcoin. Its used as the currency for century’s for a reason and is often fallen back upon as a last resort for a reason. Silver isn’t because it’s not as fininite but is good as a more ubiquidous self backed currency for the same reason, just more for the common man.
The reason golds value is so high is because it is the price of combine debts that verious fiat deal could cover over all these years, that’s why it’s so high. When a debt can’t be covered in cash, gold is often sold to make up the diffrence, over time that has caused its price to rise due to it being represented against these assets, it seems people can’t get enough of the shiny metal.
I understand it fine. At least the parts of what you said that are true anyway. Much of it is false but even if it weren’t, I think you’re misunderstanding my meaning.
Gold being used as a currency is ascribing to it an artificial value. It is no different than say, printing a number on a piece of paper and saying that paper is now valuable. It’s a rock that we take out of the ground. If we tried as hard to dig up gold as we do digging up oil, we might eventually dig it all up in a few thousand years.
Oil has value because we use it for all kinds of crap. It’s so useful we also trade it because it’s valuable. This is true of every other commodity. Gold has so far outpaced its actual industrial value it’s functionally just another currency, victim to the same manipulations as any other currency.