Last thought about gold's value is that the singular reason for the enormous inflation of the value of gold is the confiscation of gold and the following decades of prohibition, which funneled the gold into the hands of people that are clamouring to drop the insanely inflated gold onto the fools who have no idea this is a bubble three generations in the making. I'd rather tell people to get silver instead of gold and even that would come with a pleasant warning that you cannot eat silver.