[me_me_me]

To be precise, you can't eat gold.

But unless we are in global civilization ending circumstances gold is good longterm bet, physical gold though.

If solar flare wipes out all electronics, your 100tons of gold in Switzerland are meaningless.

[jkhdigital]

People have been using money since before recorded history, and bronze age technology is sufficient for gold to be used as reliable money. If any kind of financial system is to arise from the ashes of civilizational collapse, it will almost certainly use gold. So I wouldn't say "meaningless"... just not immediately useful, perhaps.

[Retric]

You misunderstood his point.

Assuming you’re talking civilian tossed back to the Bronze Age. Whoever has access to the vault might make use of the gold in such situations, but ownership is unlikely to be tracked back to people in another city etc.

Now, if you personally want to store physical gold that’s a different bet. Though personally storing significant amounts of valuables like that has plenty of obvious downsides.