Wake me up inside <| sep |> If the Kancolle girls are literally ships , wouldn ' t that make this a huge mismatch ? <| sep |> You shoudn ' t pick any profession for the money . If you don ' t like what you do , you ' re going to 1 suck at it and 2 be miserable . <| sep |> Anything can store value . Paintings , ancient sculptures , real estate , etc . What makes gold special is its use as money . In fact , if it was not used as money it would still store value , only much less of it . Gold is better money than a house because it has a better mix of the characteristics of money , i . e . portable , fungible , durable , divisible , recognizable , and scarce . If it were less of any of those things its store of value would be affected . Say we find a huge vein of gold that doubles the supply . The store of value of each unit of gold would be affected . Bitcoin is superior in every one of those respects except arguably durability . Because it has a better mix of those characteristics , it will store value , period . To say people won ' t value bitcoin is like saying those characteristics mean nothing , and hence any argument for gold ' s value is also moot as well .