Food and Hand tools.

Ones that don't require electricity are best.

If the lights go out, no one's gonna have a computer to look up the true value of your gold coins.

You can't buy bread with gold or bitcoin and get your value.

But you can make a crate, knit a bag, or trade some mason jars for canning.

The only thing you can truly own is what you can hold in your hands and use without some overbearing system giving value to things.

Paper rectangles. Shiny coins. Sticks of silicone.

Useless when it comes to a life or death situation.

Well, maybe you can burn the paper rectangles and use them to wipe your ass... Even then, I bet the fumes they give off aren't good for your lungs.

Edit:

Oh, and your brain.

What you learn today is what you know tomorrow.

The Internet may not always be there for you to look crap up.

Food and Hand tools.

Ones that don't require electricity are best.

If the lights go out, no one's gonna have a computer to look up the true value of your gold coins.

You can't buy bread with gold or bitcoin and get your value.

But you can make a crate, knit a bag, or trade some mason jars for canning.

The only thing you can truly own is what you can hold in your hands and use without some overbearing system giving value to things.

Paper rectangles. Shiny coins. Sticks of silicone.

Useless when it comes to a life or death situation.

Well, maybe you can burn the paper rectangles and use them to wipe your ass... Even then, I bet the fumes they give off aren't good for your lungs.