&gt; What you are saying only holds up until about 40 years ago. The 2500 years before that contradicts what you are saying.<p>A tautology.<p>&gt; It does not. More ideal money drives out less ideal money.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gresham%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gresham%27s_law</a><p>&gt; You don&#x27;t have to look far to see that what you are saying is ridiculous. Argentina, Venezuela, Zimbabwe<p>You&#x27;re confusing inflation with hyper inflation, a common mistake.<p>&gt; At the same time, if you took a long view and were going to put away $100,000 in US dollars or $100,000 in gold and you would come back in 100 years to get it, which would you do?<p>As I already told you the purpose of money is not to save it, I would not store 100k liquid as cash; cash does not exist to save, it exists to trade.  Save assets, not money.  Money is a tool, inflation only bothers those who don&#x27;t understand how the tool works and try and use it inappropriately.