Shiny metals won’t save your apocalypse

Gold and silver get hyped up like they're some kind of ultimate safe haven, but honestly, half the time it feels like people are shilling them the same way they do with crypto or whatever the latest meme coin is. Every time the economy gets weird, you see the same cycle: suddenly everyone’s an expert on “intrinsic value,” and now gold is supposed to save you when the government collapses. But let’s be real - if we ever hit real apocalypse territory, I'd rather have a can of beans, antibiotics, or honestly anything that actually keeps me alive, instead of a shiny metal bar. Yeah, gold has been used as money for thousands of years, and supposedly a Roman-era cow cost about an ounce of gold - and if you check, that’s still roughly true today, at least before the latest gold price pump. But people forget that even gold and silver are just subject to supply and demand, same as everything else. Silver was “safe” at $30 until it wasn’t, and even after a 17% crash in a day, you could still be up 15% if you timed it right, but that just means you’re on the same roller coaster as everyone else. And the whole “fiat is a scam” thing always cracks me up. The US dollar isn’t backed by Italian cars, and Tony definitely can’t fix the global currency system - though I guess stranger things have happened, like a tire company becoming the authority on restaurant quality. People have been pushing gold and silver forever, especially when things feel shaky, but if society actually falls apart, nobody’s going to be trading for my ETF silver or shiny coins. They’ll want stuff that keeps them alive, not something that only really works because we all agree it’s valuable. Gold’s got a long history, sure, but it’s not some kind of magic shield, and you should think twice before betting everything on it just because it’s been around since the Roman Empire.