Gold IS special. It’s money.
Whereas the plastic or linen or cotton or electrons in our wallet are merely fiat currency. Every fiat currency in history has eventually reached its true value, which is zero.
The third world knows something that we have forgotten.
Gold ‘was’ money.
Today it’s just a yellow metal.
The only reason gold ever had value as money or currency is because an ‘entity of force’ made it so. Else it’s no different than a piece of rock, iron or lithium.
Although gold is rare compared to say silicon or quartz, so are many things such as natural pearls.
Gold is only money because an authority such as Caesar says it’s money. There is no other reason.