That's because idiots have been mislead and lied to. The general public have been fooled in to believing that "paper" is money!!! Paper has no value.... Why do you think central banks store gold?? Why do the United States treasure Fort knox so much and keep the amount of gold there a secret?? Why has China, Russia and other super powers been dumping the US Dollar and buying up gold??

If you offered me gold for groceries or any other items, I'd snap your hand off to do that deal.

I could talk for hours on the importance of precious metals as a form of real money and the impending hyper inflation that's coming. Precious metals will never make you rich, but they will always prevent you from becoming poor.