How do you get that?

Exactly. That's why I want a market standard, let the market pick what is the best money.

i was overstating it a bit (the state again  ), but some seem to understand


fine, then you essentially want a true 1:1 gold backed currency. how do you know if a bank issuing notes actually has all the gold as a reserve? how will you ensure that people will actually care? we've had all that before. history repeating. another problem is that today's gold supply is largely controlled by the elites already.

It does because the government enforces the gold standard and gives itself a monopoly over what is money which allows them to grow more easily and faster which eventually leads to socialism.

You have a misunderstanding of what exactly a gold standard is. A gold standard is the opposite of the government saying what money is, because people already view gold as money. If a gold standard is enforced then the government is restrained from growing by inflating the money supply.

LOL

I had a feeling someone would call me on that

Yes, I'd agree, but we are still a long way from Cuba. 

That wouldn't need any force at all... thus no need for it to be "enforced".  I think we agree if you replace "enforced" with "honored".

A gold standard is precisely a government telling the people what money is. What we want is a market standard where the market decides what money is. Then and only then the government is powerless to abuse it's assumed privilege of controlling money and it's worth.