Quote Originally Posted by Starbuck_Jones View Post
You can't eat gold.
I never said to eat the gold.
Just that it has had about the same amount of purchasing power over history.

You wouldn't have eaten the gold in biblical times.
And you won't be eating the gold in modern times.
However, in either time (or virtually and date in between), you could purchase close to the same amount of bread.
So while a countries currency might go up or down, gold retains its relative value.