Unrelated to the killing, tying you medium of exchange to a physical commodity was ill-suited to a time where the global productivity growth was double-digits f

Unrelated to the killing, tying you medium of exchange to a physical commodity was ill-suited to a time where the global productivity growth was double-digits for 50 years. Limiting the growth of your exchange medium to the rate at which a commodity can be extracted is almost as bad as going full command economy.