Well pretty much yeah, if the dollar crashes your money may not be worth as much in the new currency and it would have if you put it in silver. If the currency is precious metal backed then I think every stacker is gonna be rich. Its also fun.

I have heard that in the time of Ancient Rome a skilled person was paid a tenth of an ounce of silver per day for a wage, and that was a stable price of silver all the way until the 1920s. If that is true it puts into perspective how devalued it is.