why do people use money when gold is a perfectly good object of value to trade?

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People have traded gold for a really long time. With accurate measuring devices and the internet for variable prices, why do people use individual nations currencies and crypto which are often unstable?

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Say you want to buy some gum for $1.50. How would that transaction go? Would you give them a tiny little grain of sand sized piece of gold? Don’t you think it would be dangerously easy to lose a lot of money walking around with tiny little flecks of gold?

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