How long gold will stay with us, we cannot tell.
Even Keynes, in the end, agreed (how reluctantly I am not sure I know) to an indirectly gold-based system at Bretton Woods.20 Mises famously, if less successfully, argued in favour of the gold standard, and said that one was free to call it a barbarous relic, to the extent that one did not object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution.