I was thinking about gold and why it's valuable. I get it, "dollar will collapse, gold is always valuable," but WHY?
And then I was thinking about the ancient civilizations, the ones pre-flood that were most likely highly advanced.. The ones that most likely were able to tap into frequencies, magnetic fields, and had advanced techniques that was lost to man. Techniques that men like Tesla eventually rediscovered, but cabal agents came and told them away (hence Epstein trolling around MIT, but that's a different topic).
I'm wondering if gold was used as a method to tapping into the power sources in the ancient world. Like, it more efficiently stabilized frequencies and made power a constant in the ancient ancient world. Who knows, I'm riffing here.
We know gold has unique properties when compared to the elements, and we know it's already used in electronics, electrical wiring, dentistry, medicine, and radiation shielding. Perhaps the ancient world harvested it as it expanded their power, and then the Flood hit, people lost the technology, but remembered gols: "it's valuable because our forefathers knew it was valuable, and maybe we'll tap into that so let's keep gathering more gold."
Maybe word-of-mouth and generational story telling eventually forgot how to leverage gold for energy, and it became a relic of the past, still valuable, but the inherent reason was lost.
My issue with using gold as a payment method in a societal meltdown is who exactly is going to be doing things like using it to make jewelry or computer/electronic parts?
That type of industry is going to be shut down for quite a long time if some major crisis occurs where people aren't taking cash money.
Food and medicine are what people will most likely be bartering when the collapse comes. Along with booze and cigarettes. That is going to be what people want/need.
Maybe gold will be useful for reestablishing wealth when society starts to rebuild. But it's basically just a guess when that will happen. It could be years. It could be decades. 🤷
Obviously just my opinion, but if there is some huge thing that happens where people are a) suddenly no longer able to continue making money as before and b) the money system we have now becomes useless, it's going to cause a lot of deaths in a short amount of time.
Remember that the vast majority of the US do not have more than 3 days worth of food in their homes, and are not buying up gold and silver to exchange. So once they run out of food, and are no longer able to buy more, things are going to get really ugly really quickly.
I don't know what percentage of the population is on a maintenance medication for things like heart disease or diabetes, but I'm going to guess it's pretty high seeing as how heart disease is the number 1 killer and diabetes is up there as well. And the majority of people don't have more than a month's supply of medication, they're going to start seeing people die pretty quickly without those drugs. I just don't see Big Pharma and pharmacies staying open with no one being paid.
And then, after we have the first die-off of people from starvation and lack of medication, all the secondary deaths will start. Probably mostly from accidents, infections, etc... People suddenly trying to do things like grow their own food, chop firewood, or any of the other labor-type jobs that people aren't used to doing for themselves because they pay others to do it or there was an alternative before.
And then we have to think of how many people will be murdered for their food and other resources. Especially in the cities where they will all be competing for the limited amount of resources inside the city. People living in rural areas will most likely fare better because a) there aren't as many people and b) they can hunt/grow food more easily.
So I see it taking a long, long time before society rebounds enough where we're going to be able/interested in things like jewelry and computer parts.
If you've got yourself set up to deal with life until that happens and you have gold set aside to re-establish "wealth" during/after society's recovery period, then you are certainly sitting pretty.
But if you're not prepared to survive the stuff that happens before society starts to recover enough to want/need gold that badly, I think that using your resources to just buy gold is short-sighted.
Of course, this is only my opinion. And I certainly don't have a crystal ball telling me what will happen in an event that we've never experienced before.
I just look at how people deal with disasters like hurricanes and realize how truly unprepared most people are for going even a couple of weeks without their usual safety nets.