Well, lots of other stuff has intrinsic value, too... Why not just pick one of those???

(Well, Boberdz... We do... That is why a pound of silver costs more than a pound of sand... Both have value but one more than the other...)

What's that got to do with peggin' the value of currency to something arbitrary just because that arbitrary choice has some level of intrinsic value???

Nothin', at all... Currency standards are hogwash, primitive and tribal... They might have served the apes in 2001, A Space Oddessey but they are way past thier shelf life in a modern world...

B~