Thanks for your thoughts; I appreciate you adding to the discussion. In regards to this question:

Similar to your caveat for crypto, let's say gold/silver experience a significant crash just before the dollar. Would people avoid those for the same reason? Or is it more of a concern with not having something tangible to flee into? Personally, I think the rise/fall of the price of alternate assets will have little impact on people fleeing the dollar.

Many people's confidence in crypto was destroyed for a period of time after the last Bitcoin bubble burst. I think there are getting to be more and more strong hands holding crypto as time goes on, but I do believe that another crash will destroy the vast majority of confidence once again.

I think a huge crash in the price of the metals is highly unlikely, but if that were to happen, I think there'd still be a lot of buyers considering it's history - 1000s of years being a store of value.

Someone suggested the price of gold/silver will initially go down if there is a Dollar crisis. Why? Because everyone will be selling their gold/silver initially to cover their shortfall due to decreased value of their dollars. But once that initial selloff passes, then gold/silver will take off.

Seems plausible. I'll have to think about that one some more.