in order to do that we would first have to come up with $17 trillion worth of silver to back our debt.
that is 850 billion ounces, or 53 billion pounds, or 25 million tons of silver. i don't think there is that much silver in the world, the epa would never let you mine it all, there are not enough trucks to haul it all to the nonexistent warehouse big enough to store it all, and you can't send it digitally through the ether at light speed to pay for a cappucino.
we have a better chance of returning to bartering with clams and rocks and sticks than silver. physical money is soooo yesterday, get with the program. it's all fiat on a magnetic strip now. ones and zeros. we get the zero part. eat your pudding.
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