“Gold has never backed the dollar. It’s the output produced that backs the dollar.”
Not true.
The dollar was backed by gold and in the 1950s and 1960s France tested it by demanding exchanging US dollars it had to gold bars.
Instead of using the dollars to pay down Frances debt to the US from WWII, the US exchange the dollars to gold at around $33 per gold oz.
That was the result of a feud between De Gaul and Eisenhower. It was an exchange of assets. The two paragraphs don’t make sense. Why would the US exchange dollars for gold when France owe us the debt? I think the official exchange rate in 1950 was $35/troy ounce of gold.