Right but it’s a social construct that’s endured across millennia and multiple different unrelated cultures. When the Spanish discovered the “new world” they d

Right but it’s a social construct that’s endured across millennia and multiple different unrelated cultures. When the Spanish discovered the “new world” they didn’t have to convince the locals that gold was valuable they’d been hoarding it too. For centuries, without any communication or contact at all. It’s been held as a high value asset in basically every iteration of humanity that’s existed, including today’s. That’s about as close a definition of intrinsic as you’re going to get in this world.