eli5 Why is Gold worth anything?

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Saw this video about gold, it’s chemical structure and malleability. I still don’t understand why gold is worth anything at all……

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Gold fulfills many properties of money such as durability, scarcity, portability etc and humans need a way to orgabise economic activity.

Gold also has a large stock to flow ratio because gold is very difficult to destroy and difficult to mine the existing stock is far greater than the incoming flow

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