Stop thinking in price.

Start thinking in hours of your life.
1971:
Gold was $35 per oz
Average hourly wage was about $3.50
Work required to buy 1 oz of gold: ~10 hours
2026:
Gold is around $4,900 per oz
Average hourly wage is about $25
Work required to buy 1 oz of gold: ~196 hours
Let that sink in.
In 1971, about one day of work could buy an ounce of gold.
Today it takes almost five weeks of work to buy the same ounce.
Your time didn’t lose value.
Your currency did.
This is why people worrying about a 5% drop in gold are missing the bigger picture.
Gold isn’t about short term price moves. It’s about protecting the value of your time across decades.
So ask yourself one honest question:
Where are you storing the value of your time before the next 50 years pass?