Forgive me if I skimmed too much and may have missed this, but...I have a friend who believes this is an attempt to wrangle people from the one thing that does not lose much of its value - THE GOLD. He thinks this is conspiracy from the very rich to lure poorer people to give up this commodity.

The friend also thinks we are seeing the beginning of the end of society. We use to work together and I'd hear him say, "COME ONNNNN APOCOLYPSE!"