I wasn’t able to hack it in the global economy. I worked in restaurants for 18 years and got nowhere, dropped out of college five times and quit half a dozen careers. I went on a bitcoin standard a few years ago and I’m effectively “retired” now in the sense that I no longer have to work exploitative jobs. I do what I want now that I’m not desperately struggling to make ends meet. If I had used gold, I would still be suffering. It takes a lot more than .01