If your base currency is fiat, @wil you have many moments of euphoria & despair with gold as a commodity.
However, if you see gold as money & measure your net worth in gold. you will find that gold buys the same comparable asset as it did over decades.
You preserve your wealth with gold.
Gold will not make you rich but will help you avoid the debts that make you poor.
Goldmoney's role is to facilitate everyone on the plant to have the opportunity to choose gold as their money.