Brother I’m hearing what you’re saying. I get what you’re getting at, I’m not missing your point. What I’m saying is gold WAS the primary trade between nations for a reason. For thousands of years. That means it was working and there was reason to use it. Not just gold, but commodities. Commodities are still used today in trade (exports and imports). Gold isn’t used today because technology has gotten better at faking gold with lead. Banks and nations still stockpile gold for a reason though!

Because citizens were retarded enough to work for constantly debased currency when the gold standard existed, so the authorities guessed people would be retarded enough to work for currency that's not backed by anything, and that turned out to be a good guess.