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Back in the day our money was based on something. $1 meant you owned $1's worth of the gold in your country. (Silver Certificate bills and coins were based in silver).
When Nixon took us of the Gold Standard and money then became just based on trust and nothing solid, we saw the great inflation of the 70's, gold skyrocketed prices for everything went up. But it also allowed government to have massive deficits and not worry about truly paying them back.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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