You can't trade effectively with precious metals alone. Imagine requiring to mail silver just to buy something online. Imagine being required to carry silver everywhere you go. It's cumbersome.
Like it or not crypto still has a place for trade.
Easy fix for that mailing silver problem. BUY and deal locally with your neighbors, the way its supposed to be. There's no reason to be buying something from the other side of the country when you can get the same damn thing at home.
Oh,cuz it's 10 dollars cheaper? How much is the shipping cost? How much did you really save? A dollar?
Your money should be staying in your local economy.
I live in a major city,and can't find the items I need for prepping and such. I wanted to buy a nice silver chain for my mother a few weeks ago,I spent an hour looking visiting several local stores,then bought it from Amazon. The inventory stores carry has changed a lot.
Bartering, including metal coins which is also technically bartering as the government isn't controlling the supply of metal. And because people weren't glued to their phones or TV's all day or didn't have to commute for hours to and from work, in fact it was enough to only have one person in the household work while the other could take care of the home, there was time to do bartering properly and discuss he price of everything.
Refrigerators and freezers also wasn't invented so women had to visit the general store on a daily basis to buy fresh food items like vegetables, milk and stuff like that, if you didn't have your own cow and garden, which more people had back then.
Not everything is available locally tho, this is why you buy online in the first place, preferably from a manufacturer in your own country at least. But there's a place both for metals and crypto because as you said, locally metals does make sense too.
You can't trade effectively with precious metals alone. Imagine requiring to mail silver just to buy something online. Imagine being required to carry silver everywhere you go. It's cumbersome.
Like it or not crypto still has a place for trade.
Easy fix for that mailing silver problem. BUY and deal locally with your neighbors, the way its supposed to be. There's no reason to be buying something from the other side of the country when you can get the same damn thing at home.
Oh,cuz it's 10 dollars cheaper? How much is the shipping cost? How much did you really save? A dollar?
Your money should be staying in your local economy.
I live in a major city,and can't find the items I need for prepping and such. I wanted to buy a nice silver chain for my mother a few weeks ago,I spent an hour looking visiting several local stores,then bought it from Amazon. The inventory stores carry has changed a lot.
That's incredibly unrealistic unless you want to return to living like the Amish, which most of us won't do.
I wonder how they did it 8n the 1800s?
Bartering, including metal coins which is also technically bartering as the government isn't controlling the supply of metal. And because people weren't glued to their phones or TV's all day or didn't have to commute for hours to and from work, in fact it was enough to only have one person in the household work while the other could take care of the home, there was time to do bartering properly and discuss he price of everything.
Refrigerators and freezers also wasn't invented so women had to visit the general store on a daily basis to buy fresh food items like vegetables, milk and stuff like that, if you didn't have your own cow and garden, which more people had back then.
Not everything is available locally tho, this is why you buy online in the first place, preferably from a manufacturer in your own country at least. But there's a place both for metals and crypto because as you said, locally metals does make sense too.
but that s the point of currency, it's an IOU for the gold.
The immense amount of stupid you people have is amazing.
Please... do tell a scenario where the USD has crashed and there is still an "internet".
I'll be waiting.
The internet isn't going anywhere moron.