> Gold tends to last longer than your average nation state. I’m not sure how that’s useful. The capability to produce goods and services seems a whole lot more

> Gold tends to last longer than your average nation state. I’m not sure how that’s useful. The capability to produce goods and services seems a whole lot more real to me in terms of value than gold (the value of which would collapse anyway if modern economy did). In theory can have currencies directly backed by oil, wheat or copper if you don’t want fiat for some reason. Would still be more ”real” than gold. > only need to last as long as the nation state itself. 1$ from the 50s is not worth much in the 80s and even less today. Seems like that should be a much bigger concern than the longevity of the state itself.