The consequences of going off the gold standard as explained by Murray Rothbard in, "What Has Government Done to Our Money":
"But whether Treasury or Central Bank, the effect of fiat issue is the same: the monetary standard is now at the mercy of the government, and bank deposits are redeemable simply in government paper".
In other words, our store of value for time and energy spent working is placed in a piece of paper the government can, and does, print.
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