On the Fact that a Zinc Penny Has More Intrinsic Value than a Stack of Hundred Dollar Bills

You do realize that this cannot go on forever? I mean, I get it that the dollar remains the world's reserve currency............and that the U.S. will probably be the final domino to fall (although there's certainly no guarantee of that) but fall it will unless we can get back to a semblance of sound money (i.e., a money supply that's backed by something of actual value; gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, osmium, copper, etc.), 'cause if it can happen to Rome......