One day soon, there may not be any alternative.
The musical chairs will end.
Marked to market, gold is likely somewhere around $56,000 an oz.
Silver at a 16:1 ratio when unmanipulated.
"...once more, after the usual period of years, the torrents of heaven sweep down like a pestilence leaving only the rude and unlettered among you."
~Plato's Timaeus