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by AnimalMuppet 4147 days ago
But demand for gold is not just jewelry and electronics. Demand for it as an alternative to fiat money is inversely proportional to peoples' trust in fiat money. So gold can be unneeded as an alternative for decades, and then be needed. Gold can be completely written off as a relic, a dinosaur... and then suddenly it's not.