I’ve observed a couple of things about gold-hecklers:
1) they tend to be people who don’t have any, and
2) they’re very childish (EX: “yeah, whaddya gonna do, take your gold coin into a store, take out yer pocket knife, slice off a sliver of gold, give it to the storekeeper, and leave with your bread and milk? A-haw-haw-haw!”)
that’s why you get fractional gold. On sale, the canadian 1 g multipacks aren’t a bad deal. Also, silver. But ultimately, I wouldn’t trade food for metals in a SHTF scenario. That’s what lead and brass is for... the gold and silver are for later, when/if things stabilize or hyperinflation before the fall.
I do not have any gold but do not oppose those who do.
My main issue with gold is that imho it is dependent upon a “goldilocks” scenario (pun—get it :-) ).
The goldilocks scenario is where things get bad but not too bad.
In the “too bad” scenario the world economy crashes, exchanges are closed and there is nowhere to trade your gold.
The best use of gold (historically speaking) is to bribe border guards when you fleeing the country after its currency has collapsed.
We have nowhere to go—on our hill to die on—so no need to bribe border guards.
;-)