View article → > Okay so today you’ve somehow managed to save enough an 1899 $20 gold coin. great! You’ve “reclaimed” two weeks of one year’s worth of 1899 human time, labor, energy, life-force. That’s what savings is: the secure storing away of your valuable time and effort so that you can have a better tomorrow. > Imagine trying to get 25 more of those coins in order to store the equivalent of one year of 1899 human effort… You would have to repeat that daunting savings task 1,300 times in order to save fifty years’ worth of 1899 human life-force. > In real value (the value of the gold coins today) that represents $4,550,000.