If nothing else he can always go in the cheap jewellery business. Seems like a lot of people forgot what happened in the late 70s when the Hunt brothers tried to corner the silver market.
You're confusing the facts a bit.. Hunt Brothers borrowed to get that silver and lost their shirts..

Silver Thursday - Wikipedia
Verses over a 100 million people from around the world buying silver with paper, on https://www.reddit.com/r/Wallstreetsilver/
Massive ad campaign.. around the world as well.
It's the version of GameStop with Silver