My bet is most of these long lived businesses also maintain a large pile of gold, which is a fantastic multi generational store of value. But yeah, cash is rea

My bet is most of these long lived businesses also maintain a large pile of gold, which is a fantastic multi generational store of value. But yeah, cash is really just a call on the local monopoly on violence, which changes all the time over the long arc of history. Terrible long term store of value.