so if i use bitcoin as a hedge against inflation, you would call me historically wise and longsighted?!
furthermore, if the major currencies of the world experience an extreme disruption, we are all fucked. no matter how much gold you did or did not hide under your mattress
a better hedge bet than gold in that scenario would be to invest in gang membership and heavy weaponry. then just go and take any fucking gold you want. because that's what happens when societies collapse on the order of extreme currency disruption: the rise of warlords
of course, mad max is not going to happen
(season my last statement with the current load of paranoia you carry around)
but let's go ahead and talk about mad max anyways: if society and its currencies destabilize on the order certain paranoid wackjobs constantly imagine it will, i am becoming a simple farmer. everyone needs potatoes. you can come give me krugerrands or point a gun at me (watch your back) for my potatoes, no problem. but i'm not going to horde gold up front, and therefore put a target on my head, and i'm not going to get a high power gun, and therefore die in some senseless firefight. i'm going to lay low, with a hoe, and a rake, and some seeds, and let mad max do what mad max will do in the next valley over
and that's a survival strategy friend. sorry it doesn't fit in with crackpot fantasy lives. too boring i guess