This is a dumb article because it assumes that gold is useless to you after the apocalypse because you’re walking down the street defenseless waving your huge gold bar around and demanding goods and services. Obviously a more cautious approach would pay off as part of a mixed and balanced end-of-the-world strategy in an ideal post-apocalyptic scenario.
But of course there are no ideal post-apocalyptic scenarios, the highest probability is that said catastrophe would leave you and statistically everybody else near you quite dead (probably from starvation and/or dehydration as water and then food runs out in major metropolitan areas with little-to-no farming capacity).
