Our friendship is worth its weight in gold.
The logic in a "gold standard" is that the private property social construct is only as "real" as its use in our interactions with such "property" and each other in the society, to use money with others to interact.
The money's value is in its use for us to survive and work the land (earth) together. Land value does not depreciate. Land (earth) and labor (we) comprise the logical basis of all our accounts and productive relations. Trust is the gold.
@RedtheBean
Not quite. "The gold standard" was established as a standard for international commerce trading by ancient pre-Mohammed Arabs since antiquity. Nothing has changed gold's status as such until the arrival of "black gold" in the early 20th century.
