> If you think your governments are so corrupt that they cannot be trusted to reliably maintain a stable money supply, then gold (or some other hard-to-control store of exchange value) is preferable to fiat money.
Well, since these institutions have caused the democide of a quarter billion human beings starved or murdered by people acting under the delusion of "governments", excluding wars, only in the 20th century...
... I am a bit wary of trusting them to "maintain a stable money supply".