• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I didn’t mean I would keep gold at home, but as someone fundamentally opposed to stock market investment, I would like to have a way to at least protect my savings from devaluation by inflation…

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      4 months ago

      Oh, 100%. Gold is perfect for people that wish to avoid the stock markets. I even have a few coins myself.

      I just find it ironic that if we ever needed to use our gold as a curreny, we would be fucked.

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        4 months ago

        Just did the math - for all mined gold in the world (~200 thousand tons) at 9 billion people, that would give us 22.4 grams of gold as currency / personal property to spend at any given time, if no one on the world had any “savings”. Considering that a 100 K EUR would already buy ~1.37 kg of gold, that’s a bit of a mismatch…