Not a lot, but It's a start to my stacking journey :)
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I'm always a bit skeptical when it comes to buying gold or silver. Take what I say with a complete grain of salt and don't even really take it as me giving advice, but these are my thoughts on it:
The most worthless thing you can do with any material on this planet is to use it as money. I think it would be best if we can move away from a system that puts money as the most important aspect of it. Another thing is that if fiat fails and everything goes to shit, it seems to me that gold and silver are going to be some of the most worthless things available to barter with. Who wants something they can do very minimal with when they are starving? Anyways that's just my thoughts don't take it as advice, if I were to give any advice I would say give more thought as to what would be useful for bartering, because at the end of the day what are you stockpiling silver (or gold) for? It's to use it to buy something that you want, the things that you can buy with silver like food, fuel, livestock animals, etc. atleast to me seem to have a much higher "value" than silver or gold itself.
Well of course you are correct that the end use of money is to get something else that you actually need for life. Gold/Silver only came into being in order to store value for long periods of time. "food, fuel, livestock animals, etc" all have a relative short shelf life and/or carrying costs (feed for animals, etc) compared to gold/silver. You should take care of your immediate needs for food and shelter first and then lay in enough of stored and barter goods that you can rotate them before they go bad. It's the extra disposable income that goes into PM's. They aren't for bartering, they are to carry wealth from this monetary system into what ever system comes next.
I just have a tough time seeing a scenario where people suddenly see gold and silver as valuable again. Like I say I don't want to be the guy that offers advice as if I have some oracle and know the future but when I really think things through if we had a true and complete collapse of all current systems, silver and gold seem to me to be some of the most worthless things around to have.