In my blissful mind there is not enough gold and oil to fuel the future of mankind. The proof is in the mechanism of transition and power.
the amount of gold does not matter. However, obviously there is a peak oil and peak everything at some point and we are still an oil driven society..... so what will happen at this peak point? No idea. What I am sure is that, at the long term, majority collectivist will always expropriate all inventions to minority individualist and make them public UNLESS we block them with gold standard. Also IMHO.
Time has proven/built peaks and valleys. Life is peaks and valleys. Nice of you to admit that you don't know where you're going. As do I. I will say farewell to you as you go on your thoughtful meanderings chasing facts and probabilities and gold. The world always has room for thinkers.
Not so much for stinkers. I will go amongst my peaks and valleys of this life. Seeking simple pleasures, remaining blissful of my ignorance. And that of those amongst me with the civility not to point out my failures. But to be enriched by them, help improve on them and I to look upon their failures with that same facility.
Bread is not always on the table. IMO it is better to have charity provide for such lean times. Rather than to seek profit out of misery for that way is but more misery.
~peace out...in~