Uncensored and uncut for your viewing pleasure.
A person has three apples for sale, let's assume there's only one country on earth for this simple example. Three people are around to buy the apples. They have the same amount of money, the apples cost the same. What is the number on their money? Second part that I never shared because it's too intelligent. One of these people decided to pay a farmer to grow more apples, this is a basic example so let's assume poof... more apples. How many more apples were there, what was the price of each apple due to the increase of apples... it had to be a lower price, because there's the same amount of people.
So you see, a country is rich partly based on gold, and it's currency, but also based on its production. I told my father this, he really thought a lot and said nothing.