#GOLD slowly loses value over centuries due to mining; fixed supply assets perform very differently.

The real story with gold is not that it dropped 9% yesterday. That’s noise. The actual story is far more uncomfortable and far more important.
Gold is down 99.987%.
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That sounds absurd at first, until you frame it correctly.
If humanity had stopped mining gold in the year 500 AD if gold supply had truly been fixed the price of one ounce of gold today would not be a few thousand dollars.
It would be north of $40,000,000 per ounce. Not because demand would be wildly different, but because supply would be fundamentally constrained.
Instead, gold is merely scarce, not fixed. Every year, more is dug out of the ground. Slowly, predictably, relentlessly. Over centuries, that dilution compounds.
And when you zoom out far enough, the result is catastrophic underperformance relative to what a truly fixed-supply asset would have achieved.
This is why obsessing over a 9% daily move completely misses the point. The real drawdown happened over hundreds of years, not one trading session. Gold didn’t crash yesterday—it has been leaking value for millennia due to supply expansion.
The difference between scarce and fixed supply isn’t subtle. It’s not 10%. It’s not 2x. It’s not even 100x.
It’s 1,000x.
That single distinction explains why gold, despite thousands of years as money, has failed to preserve purchasing power in the way people assume it has.
And it explains why assets with truly fixed supply dynamics behave differently over long time horizons.
This isn’t an argument against gold. It’s an argument about monetary physics.
Scarcity slows dilution. Fixed supply eliminates it.
Once you see that difference clearly, you can’t unsee it.
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