why the rules do matter, page-8

Fair point, not much come-back there. I'm guilty for giving Sinclair a hard time in his early conspiratorial days of goldbuggery.

It just seems a pointless set of rules to deride what has been a very good way to make decent coin over the years. IMO, anti-buggery is just as bad as sitting in your bunker worrying about Armageddon style goldbuggery. Being agnostic to opportunities to gather wealth doesn't do anyone any good.