Why are there so many Gold-Buyers?

The economy is based on gold. All your paper money represents existing gold somewhere. Since money is always inflating, gold is really the only way to keep up with the inflation. However, if you look at it this way, gold's price isn't going up, its the money's value going down.

I am 67.8894% sure we ditched the Gold standard a while back and are now on the "imaginary house of cards interwebx credit" standard.
A much better standard.