Fake history of mankind. Gold

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

One of the mysteries of human society is the role of gold in it. On the one hand, everything seems to be clear: a store of value, a means of payment, an object of the gold standard, jewelry and raw materials for the electronics industry and medicine. But this is only at first and superficial glance. And if you think about it?

At the dawn of civilization, gold was mined uncontrollably and the increase in production clearly outstripped population growth - after all, there was no medicine, adequate nutrition and comfortable living conditions. People lived a little. This means that gold quickly depreciated if people decided to consider it a means of payment. After all, it is still easier to pan for gold than plowing, sowing, harvesting, storing feed for cattle or running with a bow and arrow after deer all year round. And there was much more gold than it is now.

And what happened when the state appeared in people's lives and decided to take control of its citizens? It somehow had to withdraw gold from the population and start minting coins. But in this case, what prevented citizens from continuing to mine gold and mint state coins themselves? You can't put a guard near every stream, and the counterfeiters appeared at the same time as the coins. I think there was no protection on those first coins that could not be counterfeited. Thus, the financial system of the state would have died before it was born.

The fact that gold fills worth of paper money is nothing more than a bike. For example: the US has printed so many dollars that there is not enough gold around the world to provide their value. But, contrary to all theories, the dollar is alive and well. Before the advent of the electronics industry, gold was used only in luxury goods and even then only in alloys. And this is the essence of the grandiose state scam: the state sells gold items to its citizens, in which there is almost no gold. If we divide the approximate gold reserve of the Russian Federation by the number of citizens, then how much will each receive? In the amount of a monthly salary? But the money supply in the country is orders of magnitude more than us. So what purchasing power of the ruble can our gold reserves provide? None. This is exactly what we observe in the foreign market: the Russian ruble is not needed by anyone as a means of payment. Its convertibility is just our ardent and unsubstantiated wish. A solid state currency can only be provided by a working economy that produces popular goods. Selling bare resources is the lot of outsiders.

So why does the state mine and store gold? There is nothing unusual about this: gold, along with rare earths, is a strategic metal and is widely used in medicine and industry. In many areas of production, there is simply no alternative to it. Only this demand gives it real value. The value of jewelry gold for the population was created artificially and was repeatedly inflated with the help of the state's monopoly on the extraction and distribution of gold. Plus the craving of our women (and some men) for everything shiny. Forgive them this little weakness.

But gold acquired this price only in our time, and what happened before? Who Needed Gold? For women in the form of jewelry? Maybe. How is the payment method? Unlikely. The physical properties of gold are not very suitable for this. It is too soft and wears out even from the touch of the fingers. Moreover, it is very heavy. Therefore, gold could not be used in the form of coins. And as a means of accumulation, it simply did not have a price: what can you buy for women's trinkets?

Besides, how can the state put the most valuable thing it has into circulation? After all, gold coins themselves are a commodity and no matter how many of them are thrown into the economy, they will all the same disappear in the bins of citizens in the form of a means of accumulation or simply float abroad, where they will give more for them, and the financial system will be paralyzed. And if the means of payment does not have its own value, then it can easily be forged by citizens. This happens even with paper money: after all, how many times has our state fought this phenomenon, and at the same time devalued the savings of citizens through monetary reforms. Well, people did not want to carry what they had acquired with such difficulty in banks to their thieving state, but hid them under a mattress, but this still did not save them. Therefore, metal coins are issued with a denomination of no more than 10 rubles. Otherwise, all non-ferrous metal would have long been buried in the gardens of our vast Motherland.

Conclusions:

1. Before the advent of industry, gold had only aesthetic value (for some) and could not be a means of payment, due to its physical properties, and therefore a means of accumulation.

2. The gold reserves of countries have nothing to do with the value of money.

3. Gold acquired its real value only with the advent of the electronics industry.

4. The financial system of states could not arise through evolution in the absence of a universal means of payment: a means of payment that had its own value immediately turned into a means of accumulation, and one that did not have such could easily be counterfeited by citizens, because technologies to protect money did not yet exist. Only natural exchange took place.

5. The means of payment cannot have its own value equal to or higher than the nominal value, otherwise it automatically becomes a commodity and ceases to perform its functions.

6. The financial systems of states, paper and metallic money, as a means of payment with a technological and legal system of protection against counterfeiting, appeared suddenly without any prehistory in a ready-made form.