After listening to the doom and gloom, prepper, gold bug and investors' reports and analyses for the past five years, I have come to the conclusion that the biggest problem these people have, is an aversion to physical labor. 
![bitcoin-coin.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSBovWuoZVRqTnL3sHMrP8agpvWALvVaVCEsFqY1ngVqY/bitcoin-coin.png)
The element that backs "money" or wealth is our energy. The energy... the labor that it takes to do everything from mine the gold, to grow and harvest the food that feeds the humans who mine the gold, so those with "money" - even those in the dwindling middle class - don't have to provide that labor themselves. 

<center><h1>"..humans have been enslaved for their labor, as long as gold has been money.."</h1></center>

In all the podcasts, rants and raves... since 2013 (my re-awakening) I haven't heard any laborers interviewed. I've heard analysts, bankers, traders and many successful investors, talk about manipulation of precious metals and how all hell is going to break loose... riots and looting in the "inner cities" and how they need to stockpile weapons, gold and silver to "protect their family and their wealth." 
<center>![ChildLabor.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUXWHjfjvXg2R524xRHfwYvyj8kuaKm1tnuPK5KmXKJnV/ChildLabor.jpg)</center>
What I haven't heard... ever... is, "I (or we, their audience) might just have to go out there and build some shyt. Create some shyt. Produce some shyt." All they talk about is how the dollar is going to collapse and how the price of gold is going to skyrocket. Because it's always been "money." 

But all good things come to an end. As one commentator said, the current generation has no experience with gold as money. And it's very possible that this "disruptive" generation could reject gold as legal tender. 

Then what?

Disclaimer... I'm not a precious metals fanatic. I'm a lower middle-class lad with a curiosity towards history and why things are the way they are. 

Out of all the explanations about why gold is money... the most common is, <i>"because it's been so for 6,000 years."</i> That's no better than saying, <i>"we've always sold humans into slavery."</i> And now that I see this in black and white, (no pun intended) humans have been enslaved for their labor, as long as gold has been money. Which brings me back to that which backs wealth... it's HUMAN Labor; whether it's the labor that fights battles, that builds infrastructure, that indoctrinates other humans... literally everything. 

The problem with investors is... <b>They don't want to work!</b> 

Hmmm, where have I heard this before???