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Tbf, gold is mostly only valuable as a social construct like cash or the numbers on the screen.
As is anything with "value".
No. Food has inherent value. A tool has inherent value. Kindness has inherent value. Gold has value in its practical applications but it's dollar value is largely because it's pretty and kind of rare.