> Sure we can 'make things' out of gold/silver, but we can't eat it or shoot it at each other: making it more or less as worthless Or---priceless! Hoarding the

> Sure we can 'make things' out of gold/silver, but we can't eat it or shoot it at each other: making it more or less as worthless Or---priceless! Hoarding them historically never (or hardly ever) interfered with anyone's livelihood or industrial endeavours, yet because of their arbitrary ("useless") nature could "absorb" / proxy per-unit any measure of wealth applicable at a given time and place-----which is another valuable property in addition to the usual "scarce, indestructable-but-divisible etc." list of benefits.