Value Collector
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compounding is nice , but that implies a lack of durability if silver/gold grew by itself , the world would by mostly silver/gold by now
or at least significantly so as well have known of gold ( and silver ) for at least 4,000 years
and interest implies the risk of capital loss
An item doesn't have to grow to compound, it just has to throw off income that can be used to buy more of that item.
For example, if you owned a piece of land that you leased, you would get all the inflation protection you would get from owning a similar value of gold, however every year it throws off some income you can reinvest to grow your land holding.
So after 20 years you own not just the original piece of land, your total land holdings have probably doubled, essentially you owned an ounce of gold that turned into 2 ounces.
There is a reason the Royal family owns land and other assets in their estates that support them, if they just owned gold they would have been broke centuries ago.