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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 1631621, member: 6370&quot;]I am sure the people who live in places where corn (food) is rare and virtually unobtainable would much rather have&nbsp; the corn immediately. Certainly gold is far more rare than corn or paper but people can live their whole lives never NEEDING gold to survive. If&nbsp; there were no gold to be had, people would live on and most wouldn&#039;t miss it because they couldn&#039;t afford such an expensive luxury while the absence of&nbsp; grain and other foods would be disastrous. Still today the main use for&nbsp; gold is making jewelry, or investment...that is...just buying to horde&nbsp; and trade but never USING it. Does rarity alone dictate its&nbsp; value to mankind? The value of gold is rooted in it use in jewelry, decoration, and&nbsp; its traditional role as a representation of wealth which stems directly FROM its use as a luxury item. Of course in the&nbsp; modern world it has a few actual practical uses (very few).</p><p><br /></p><p>As for investment, like anything valued by mankind there is money to be made in trade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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