Why was my first thought in response to the title "I hope not people would die"? x_x
I remember one year where we asked parents and grandparents for a "gold coin" donation and while we got a lot of coins (and some notes because some people would pop in a pink or blue note as "gold coin donation from whole family") there were (perhaps surprisingly given trends in general but otherwise not that surprising for the type of demographic in the area) a few people who "never carry cash anymore" and I said to them "WHAT HAPPENS IF THERE'S A POWER OUTAGE OR THE BANK MAKES A MISTAKE AND FREEZES YOUR ACCOUNT BY ACCIDENT INSTEAD OF THE BAD GUY WITH THE SAME OR SIMILAR NAME TO YOU OR ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS OR FAMILY GETS UP TO SOME INTERESTING THINGS AND THE GOVERNMENT DECIDES YOU'RE ASSOCIATED BECAUSE YOU KNOW THEM" and they kind of just shrugged helplessly and we laughed about how screwed they would be but I like to pretend from the look on their face that I made them think at least a tiny bit XD
it can't be stolen from the citizens and used to finance whatever the government wants
I forgot about this one, I need to add it to my rapidfire list of rapidly escalating nonsense XD
I guess one of the slightly more useful things about the panpanic is that there are a lot less people confidently asserting that "they wouldn't do that because they just wouldn't" whenever I suggest outlandish things that they don't want to be true therefore they are immediately dismissed out of hand
Given how much money people have been printing willy nilly I don't think there is enough gold to be "reserve".
another fun thing is arguing with people including youngest about how money only has value because we agree it does and that could be translated to literally anything including pretty shells and crypto, but he was struggling with that and I think the glitchy brain gets in the way there too as I know it really does for me a lot of the time
Gold coins thrown off the empire state building :D
They assume that "someone will look after me" even though if it really does hit the fan, they are on their own.
I also suspect that it has been getting pilfered here and there for various activities that would be considered shady. For example, Russia bought drones from Iran using gold, due to frozen cash assets. They flew a plan with something like 1.3 tonnes of gold in it. Imagine it getting shot down :D
Most people don't know how instable "money" actually is :)
Oh coins would probably be fine if annoying XD The image in my head was gold bricks for some reason.
Given the demographics of our centre I think this particular individual was genuinely at least briefly considering their options should their bank account ever get unexpectedly frozen because by their own admission they never carry cash. In general though this is probably a common misconception probably given that the social security system is generally pretty decent (but I still go out of my way to avoid dealing with it now because every mistake is your fault even when they did it).