I dislike the “are gold and silver useful compared to X” debates because they largely end up at the apocalypse scenario. Nobody knows what the fuck anybody will be doing or valuing and 99.9999999999999% of us will be dead before said apocalypse begins.
Waste of time to debate it. I like gold and silver, they are good market hedges. Always will be when it matters, and I don’t care about the apocalypse scenarios.