Conserve what? Certainly not the environment, human rights, common decency or democratic traditions. So, what else?

So his “crime” that you want to punish him for is that he improved things in a way that made sense in the context of his time instead of looking decades into the future and forcing a drastic change immediately long before society was anywhere near ready for it? Seriously?

I drew better trucks in crayon when I was 5.

I like to describe it as “a five year old’s idea of a cool car”. I guess you had better taste than most at that age.

You can buy gold (and other precious metals) as exchange traded commodities, no reason to have them physically delivered to your home and risk damaging your floor.