Surely, the plan is all encompassing and not just a reset.
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When the economy collapses completely gold and sliver will be nearly equally worthless.
Gold ONLY ever became a medium of exchange because its quite useful as a metal to strike into coin. Its realtively rare, hard to mine, soft enough to easily strike even with bronze dies, and very resistant to corrosion.
Now as an industrial metal gold is quite valuable, but I doubt you will be tradiing your stock to microchip manufacturers in the economic apocalypse.
You can't eat gold, and anybody you would give it to can't really do anything useful with it.
Final nail in the coffin gold is being cartel-ed, or the supply is being restricted globally to keep the price way, way, way above trading value. Gold should trade at like $100 an ounce, not $5000+
If you an't buy copper or Iron or stocking up on gardening (this farming) tools or otherwise aquiring useful things, you are fucking up. The guy with useful things that can be directly used by desperate survivors will be able to trade for anything.
Gold WILL be useful for trade, for the same reasons the ancients picked it, the new economy will still trade it as something of worth, but given your limited money now, you could buy a LOT more scrap high carbon steel than you could gold. A LOT. And if things get really hairy, high carbon steel will be worth its weight in gold given its ability to be turned into tools.