Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same result An yet if you watch a documentary on gold they argue that money has to come back to precious metals because thats what the world keeps coming back to over time To me by definition it means it never solved the problem If humans have gone on and off gold for all time what makes them think we will move back to gold and then not end up with the same thing again - it shows that they are fundamentally flawed and unable to meet the criteria needed In these documentaries they also say how you have to hold the physical gold because there is no visibility or transparency by entities and by holding it that it frees you from the system but it does not and you are unable to use the physical gold in person (due to divisibility) or online (since now its not in your possession) If you hold the gold then all solutions lead back to paper gold and then fiat - this loop is the whole problem Its kind of ridiculous - it was insufficient in a pre internet world and its certainly insufficient in our global digital world as money