Fool’s Gold Rush

Now that the Final Apocalypse is nearly here, how’s your gold supply?

Yes, everyone is trying to accumulate as much gold as they possibly can before it’s too late and money becomes completely worthless.

Not to mention civilization as we knew it.

Gold hit an all-time high recently of $1,500 per ounce and seems to be trending ever upward, as the world sinks deeper into chaos and hope for a better future for our children appears to be evaporating a little more every day.

Those late-night ads that offer to buy your “old gold” just gathering dust in a cardboard box in your basement or in your dead grandma’s jewelry box say it all: There’s a gold rush on out there among savvy, world-is-ending-believing investors who expect to sit on a pile of yellow metal while the fighting rages outside their moat-surrounded bunkers.

According to the gold lovers, rampant inflation is just around the corner and everything you’ve saved all your life will soon not be worth the paper it’s printed on.
 
According to them, we non-gold-lovers are a bunch of chumps, still using money to buy stuff. I mean, just hold it in your hand – gold is heavy and solid, like a rock. Whereas money is just paper with pictures of dead presidents on it — easily torn, blown away by the wind or burned in the firestorms of the Apocalypse.

Gold, on the other hand, has substance. It just feels like something you could build a future upon.

But what kind of future, I wonder?

When the long-awaited Apocalypse finally arrives, just exactly how will the new gold-based economy work?  How much gold will it cost to buy a loaf of bread? How much gold will it cost to buy a gallon of gas? How much gold will it cost to pay the machine-gun-wielding goons you’ll have to hire to protect you from the gold-less masses trying to get into your bunker to separate you from your gold stash?

And how will the gold be parceled out? By shaving a few precious flakes off a Fort Knox-style brick you carry around in your trendy sports bag? Just how will those street-side transactions work? Who brings the scales to weigh the gold and make sure it’s the right amount for the purchase?

How much gold will we need to pay for all the things we’ll need for the rest of our lives?

I’m guessing A LOT.

I’m sure it’s more than most of us would ever be able to acquire. So the gulf between the haves and the have-nots that already exists in our paper money-based culture will simply get wider and more dangerous.

I just can’t figure out this gold-loving crowd. They seem to be the most selfish, paranoid, hoping-for-the-worst bunch I can possibly imagine.

Sure, things are tough. But they’ve been even tougher before, and we’ve gotten through them because most of us pulled together to make things better. Most of us believe in the American – nay — HUMAN dream of working hard to provide a good life for ourselves and our kids.

And that means supporting an economy that believes in dead presidents.

So, as has always happened so many times before in human history, those who don’t want to be part of that communal effort for a better world will turn inward and sit on a pile of gold.

I hope it helps them sleep better.

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