For starters, that is the best meme I've seen in awhile. Good on ya, OP!

I never have understood this drive to hold actual precious metals. It isn't legal tender -- meaning I can't take bars of silver to Krogers to get my groceries, or to Shell to buy gas for my car, or at a restaurant to pay for dinner. So whether it is worth $4/oz, $40/oz, or $400/oz I can't actually get 'stuff' for it. Y'all talk about it like we're in some dystopian world where it works like that -- we ain't.

So then what I have to do is find someone to trade me some legal tender for it. Back into the market to sell it. Or if I'm going to get a little cash for the hard-metal in my pocket, I go to a local dealer. I've never found those guys pay what the spot price is. It's always 10% or 20% less. If they'll guy it from me at all.

So other than holding it for when the world ends and we're back to trading for things, what is the point other than to enter into the speculative market? And if the world does go in the shitter (as many of you seem to think and hope) ... won't I do better having more useful commodities to exchange: Coffee, cigarettes, booze, sugar, cooking oil, etc.? Or as my brother would say -- got plenty of 5.56NATO, so I can get whatever I want.