I am way late back to this party; while one may like or choose metals as your store of values the king store of value is the price of corporations, ie. stocks, and their assets and debt, and the financial derivatives of those.
It makes no difference if we like it or not. History has been pointing in this direction for a very long time. So that now corporations have vast areas of sovereignty. Said asset prices are a sovereign decision.
There is nothing in the Western world to resist that, socially, culturally or politically.
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