You're presuming a scenario of where society retains enough cohesion for trading with gold and silver is still possible. It's a likely scenario, though I'm also preparing for one where mobs of retarded leftist zombies will come to ransack and steal everything they can once the cities run out of food,South Africa style. Means of defense, life skills (plumbing, electric, electronics, mechanics, sewing, cooking,etc) and manpower in numbers to do all the work and bolster the defenses of your local community retain more value during times of grave social turmoil, in my opinion. I'd be happy to know your opinions on the subject.
Indeed brother. See, we just got complementary viewpoint on the same issue. I took to skills, favors and manpower, while you came with the good currency for commerce once things start to settle down.
You're presuming a scenario of where society retains enough cohesion for trading with gold and silver is still possible. It's a likely scenario, though I'm also preparing for one where mobs of retarded leftist zombies will come to ransack and steal everything they can once the cities run out of food,South Africa style. Means of defense, life skills (plumbing, electric, electronics, mechanics, sewing, cooking,etc) and manpower in numbers to do all the work and bolster the defenses of your local community retain more value during times of grave social turmoil, in my opinion. I'd be happy to know your opinions on the subject.
Indeed brother. See, we just got complementary viewpoint on the same issue. I took to skills, favors and manpower, while you came with the good currency for commerce once things start to settle down.
I'm banking on being useful to the people who produce the food, trading on skills/knowledge which are hard to steal (unless I'm taken as a slave).
from peanut gallery
"and copper too"
Methheads would argue copper has always been currency.