Abandon your monetarist goldbug worldview, the gold decoupling and subsequent floating of the international exchange rates are downstream of the actual policy decision that have emiserated the population.

The globalists open the western worker to global competition, they lost their leverage by losing their scarcity and competence.

The subsequent decline comes from the system’s inertia and the burning of the future with debt and literally the future by having spending money instead of kids.

If you want the golden age back for normal people, then there is NO REMEDY other than giving them their leverage and power back.

But how do you do that ? Taxes and interest rates serve to dis-empower those who need it the most and regular people are the one MOST hurt by these.

The neoliberal religion refuses to treat people who “win” the game of capital differently than regular people, as if they were somehow on an equal footing.

The result ? The more wealth you have the easier it becomes to acquire and accumulate more of it. This needs to be exactly reversed, the poorer you are, the easier it should be to acquire but the more you have the harder it gets. Up until a point where it becomes nearly impossible to go beyond the “capital horizon” some kind of equilibrium state where wealth can lo longer be acquired faster than you lose it.

It’s not some shiny metal bullshit which only serves the status quo like discussion about which toilet should a trans person piss in.