The wealthy under the gold standard during the Gilded Era was DRAMATICALLY more wealthy and powerful than today. The Carnegies and Rockefellers, who owned American society during the gold standard in the 1800s, would be about 5X-10X more wealthy than our Musk and Bezos.

The idea that you would own more wealth under that standard is laughable. We are far more equitable today than we were in that era. Our concept of the middle class largely didn't even exist in their era. They paid everyone poorly and kept them under control.

I dont think you can ascribe a thousand legal, technological and societal changes to the gold standard

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. I'll reply to people doing that by using their own arguments.

Based on the replies to me, the gold standard is the panacea for every ill in society. We'll all be rich, the wealthy will be torn down, we'll all be home owners, there will never be another bust, etc etc

It probably won't do any of that. But it does make it a lot harder to print money and hand it over to the wealthy without people figuring out who is paying the bill.

i have the impression, that abandondonment of the gold standard did create a kind of corrupting mindset, that goes as follows "if we can manipulate he CPI, so that it appears that there is no inflation, if we can create money out of nothing with tricks like quantitave easing, then we can do anything". This mindsets creates a kind of collusion between the establishment and the media. This collusion protects the consensus from further questioning - a kind of feeback loop sets in. (but that may not be true either, there was plenty of hypocrisy when the gold standard was in effect)