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I’m looking to put my money into dirt.

Ooooh, did I ever rile folks up here who think they're going to buy food with gold. Hate to tell them, if there is no food then no amount of gold will make a loaf of bread appear. You have the right idea with dirt. Dirt will provide that loaf of bread. Just make sure that dirt is protected with some brass.

>> Ooooh, did I ever rile folks up here who think they’re going to buy food with gold.

Folks who own gold take owning gold quite seriously.

Fact is, I don’t KNOW what’s going to happen. Neither do the gold bugs, or you, or anyone else.

All any of us can do is to take our chances on our best educated guess as to what will happen, and plan our affairs accordingly.

Best of luck to you. And your point about “brass” is well taken.

Ooooh, did I ever rile folks up here who think they’re going to buy food with gold. Hate to tell them, if there is no food then no amount of gold will make a loaf of bread appear. You have the right idea with dirt. Dirt will provide that loaf of bread. Just make sure that dirt is protected with some brass.

I guess you never heard of “farming.” It’s been pretty popular through all of human history. Basically, it works like this: “Farmers” have “dirt” and they grow “food” in it. By growing more food than they need (otherwise, we’d call them “garderners”) they generate a surplus, which they can exchange for other stuff they need more than excess food. because the guy who needs a bushel of wheat might no have the plow component the farmer needs, they usually use some “medium of exchange” (aka “money”) so the farmer gets something like, say...GOLD (or silver for small purchases, or gold to pay off an accounting of multiple purchases) and he spends the gold with the part supplier.

So as has been the case throughout human history, you CAN in fact make a loaf of bread appear with only a very small amount of gold.

If you still don’t get it, remember that the farmer doesn’t trade the food for gold because he wants gold, he trades it for gold because he wants the stuff gold buys.