No, I don’t. Gold doesn’t have an army, and it was the currency of the world for...

transcriptase · 2025-05-17T02:01:04 1747447264

Until the nation holding the most gold and the biggest stick decided it wasn’t. Care to guess who that was, and what it was replaced with?

scoofy · 2025-05-17T02:15:54 1747448154

You’re the one arguing it must be this way. I’m just saying there are functional alternatives.

When you have a powerful trading partner, by all means, use their currency. When they start threatening debasement or default, there are alternatives.