What do you want to do with gold or USD if the us economy collapses? This isn’t the middle Ages where you can pay the peasants with gold or silver coins. In an economic collapse canned food, fuel, etc. will be useful. Something people need every day and can be swapped in small quantities.

Why do you insult all the nice disabled I know personally with this statement?

Boing can save a lot of money by eliminating quality control, safety procedures and firing all the expensive and experienced workers, and staff the operation by minimum wage workers.

Sure you can run it on low end hardware, but how does the performance (response time for a given prompt) compare to the other models, either local or as a service?