I think interest in gold depends on your outlook and planning horizon and will be u shaped through time in 2K.
Let me explain. Gold and jewels are highly likely to be valuable again someday, if things recover even a little. So, if I think I'll make it to then, they're valuable to me. They also have a powerful psychological pull. They'll be valuable to many, at least a little bit, for that reason. But, when I'm starving, I plant turnips. I don't rob banks. When really in the shit, they have nearly no value.
So, I think they have value early on when people expect things to bounce back quickly, very little when people are living at a subsistence level, and more later on as conditions improve. They will have value throughout to speculators who have the resources to plan for a longer term. But no one without food, a weapon, or a functioning market will give a damn.
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