What makes gold worthwhile?

How is "gold" going to be worth anything if modern agriculture collapses?

If modern infrastructure collapses

Shiny

Gold and silver are good for a post-war scenario

Useless for post-nuclear-war scenario

@Light scarcity

And history

To the poll, ideally I don't think we should be teaching jobs in school because we should all just have family farms :). But in reality right now it should be trades or stem.

Rare =/= useful

trades are the foundation of any civilised society

So is art tho

art is kinda the foundation of any society

@Light it doesnt need to be useful

there is an overlap ig
a carpenter can also be an artist
plumbing is one of the most important things to society

(Even though silver is used alot in manufacturing)

gold is pretty useful tbh

very ductile

How?

for electronics

lots of electronics use gold

But in light's scenario

Electronics are also rare

can gold be used for disinfectant?
silver and copper used to be used for these things

Anyway

The main driving force for their value will be scarcity

If your scenario where modern agriculture or modern infrastructure collapses

Its scarcity and our lack of ability to mine more on an industrial scale such as before will drive up its value

Making it prime for new financial systems to use gold or silver backed currency as a medium of exchange

Rare =/= valuable, worthwhile

You know whst would be more worthwhile?

More valuable metals, food (preserved, perhaps)

Anything really

I'd argue thst by being so scarce, it'd be worth less than some more common things

As not enough currency would exist for everyone

this nigga out here advocating for a barter economy

We'd resort to bartering until a new state arises

At which point they'd likely issue their own currency

I dont think people struggling for survival will be in thr gold market tbh

we would trade with bottlecaps

That's unironically a better system