[Atlas Sneezed]

The desert island scenario, however, is also a good metaphor for a state of society that we could find ourselves in should things really get bad. You can’t eat gold. You can’t keep yourself warm with gold. You can’t wear gold. That is the point. It all depends on how bad things get, and how long the badness goes on.

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Now we’re away from the absurd and back to the plausible risk worth insuraing against. You’re engaging in straw man rhetiric, as if anyone is suggesting that gold is a first choice to have in a crisis, above water, food, guins, ammo, and silver for day to day money.

I think its clear that while those things will help your family survive a crisis, gold will help your remaining wealth survive the crisis.

When it comes to the “you can’t eat gold” cliche, tell us what investment or store of wealth you can eat, and why that should be a goal?

[fr_freak]

Now we’re away from the absurd and back to the plausible risk worth insuraing against. You’re engaging in straw man rhetiric, as if anyone is suggesting that gold is a first choice to have in a crisis, above water, food, guins, ammo, and silver for day to day money.

Listen, buddy, if you're going to jump in on the middle of someone else's conversation, you should at least know what we were talking about. I don't care what YOU were suggesting. The guy I replied to couldn't see a scenario where gold had no value so I gave him one. Period. That guy wasn't you, so kindly untwist your panties.