Only a absolute moron would ever believe that paper money holds true value.
You want to take a history lesson? Go back and look at every nation of the 20th century that decided they would use paper money and have a centralized bank audit and control all gold and silver.
Every single one of them went through hyper-inflation and their currency destroyed. You can't print wealth out of thin air, we might as well be using fake monopoly money to pay our bills.
The only reason why the Fed is still able to print at this magnitude and then dump all these billions into the US treasury is because America's dollar is the worlds most exchanged currency. If that wasn't the case the dollar would be absolutely WORTHLESS. There would be no recession this would be a GREAT DEPRESSION.
And now more and more countries are investing less into the dollar, buying less American stock, and China is even selling off our debt. Not only that but world powers such as Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and many European countries are all have discussions on adopting a new universal world currency.
I'm going to say it again. Only a complete and utter fool believes that green paper in a printing press holds any value at all. Because it doesn't.