I'll take that bait.
So you're saying that our present system of currency where your dollar represents what the government says it represents and that can be just a binary code that represents a dollar is worth more or more valuable than some binary code that represents an ounce of gold is preferable?
KJM, if we had no trade outside our borders, that'd work. But you're talking 19th century.
Every day, I make purchases instantly that might be in Yen, Euros, Reals, whatever. The values are constantly in flux. The money has nothing to do with the United States government or its gold stores, but it's still worth real goods, products and services.
I don't think you've had any experience with the transactions going on every second in any large multinational corporation, or you'd know better.
Money no longer represents shiny metal. It represents its true worth to those trading and holding it in terms of resources, goods and services and what they're willing to exchange them for on a global scale.
GLOBAL.
The way money works now vs the era of the gold standard is like comparing the Internet to a single pair of battery-powered telephones. It's not that simple anymore, nor will it ever be. It is a vast web of millions of transactions per second between all world currencies and their constantly fluxing value.