But can you waltz on down to walmart and buy a loaf of bread with it when cash goes to hell? I’d watch that zombie reel over and over again spitting my popcorn all over the screen from uncontrolled laughter while I traded true utility goods! Gold is more fiat than paper ever will be. You can’t eat it, wear it, or stay warm with it literately. You could melt it down and make shitty ammunition out of it I suppose. I, and other elect people, will own people that invest in gold when the time comes.
Anything can happen in the future, but gold has proven its worth for thousands of years across hundreds of countries and civilizations.
Try buying a loaf of bread with your stocks, bonds, or securities.
Gold isn’t a substitute for currency in a collapse situation. It isn’t intended to be, really.
It’s to preserve wealth until “the other side of the collapse” is reached.