The Gold Standard is the Collectivization of Real Wealth!
I definitely exaggerated when I said a new digital currency could be put into place in 24 hours.. Just understand that now currency is really just a log of how much percentage of the worth of daily trade a person has.. (Not necessarily daily)
People have a great deal of trouble accepting this fact. Yes it is good to collect precious metals, but advocating for a gold-standard only resets our society back another 40 years. So let me make this very clear; The definition of a gold-standard; is that a bunch of bankers have the people's gold!!! While the people have nothing but paper!!!
Also each and every gold-standard that has been created in history was followed later by a fiat-monetary system, which soon failed. (~40 years) A much healthier society would have each family/household have a stash of gold hidden in their house. While the daily goods are exchanged with a properly optimized digital-currency. Bitcoin could possibly function for a short period of time however.
