{"id":668612,"date":"2026-01-01T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=668612"},"modified":"2026-01-01T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:30:20","slug":"what-if-money-were-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/01\/what-if-money-were-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"What if money were gold?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So this is a simple idea that I have\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us say that your life savings is all in gold, that you just had a bunch of gold bars gold coins whatever, and let us say that these little pieces of gold were divisible into very very small bits, so you could use some of this gold to buy digital services, your Netflix subscription a Starbucks latte, or some takeout Indian food. Or a car or a Tesla etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is the case\u2026 I think the funny observation that I\u2019ve made is we are very very happy and easy to just spend currency like US dollars in our bank account, or cash currency\u2026 But we are actually very very reluctant to spend gold because we know that it has long-term value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is a simple idea that I have\u2026 Let us say that your life savings is all in gold, that you just had a bunch of gold bars gold coins whatever, and let us say that these little pieces of gold were divisible into very very small bits, so you could use some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668613,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668612\/revisions\/668613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}