Isn't investing in gold the dumbest thing you can do?

Not only is it dumb to invest in something when the price is already high, but by having your overpriced, minute, intangible, undetectable speck of an "investment" you are helping the banking interests become ever more powerful as the value of "their" (which includes the "cash for gold" scam where the banks, through the government, confied all the people's gold during the last Great Depression/financial crisis) ets climb to unprecedented heights. Then after becoming even wealthier and even more larger monopolies thanks to the gullible, they will pull out before the balloon deflates and like morons all hapless wannabe investors will have is an empty account and a perhaps piece of paper as their "investments" disappear.