Two great points (I only touched on the second by stating: don’t risk what you can’t lose):

• The time-value of money has to be understood; the capital risked is 2022 dollars, and the return at expiration date would be 2024/2025 dollars. (edit: I was distracted when I wrote “time value of money”; “the debasement of the currency” is the more salient issue, and the one you correctly brought up)

• Definitely don’t spend money that is needed for more pressing purposes, even while acknowledging that survival preparation is inherently speculative as well. I’ve spent a lot of money on survival prep that may not ever get used if there’s not a food emergency in the US. This activity is indeed very analogous to the risk/reward of a speculative investment, although I, too, would elevate preparing for “food insecurity” over financial positioning for the coming financial evisceration of companies complicity in the canal’s mass murders.

Two great points (I only touched on the second by stating: don’t risk what you can’t lose):

• The time-value of money has to be understood; the capital risked is 2022 dollars, and the return at expiration date would be 2024/2025 dollars.

• Definitely don’t spend money that is needed for more pressing purposes, even while acknowledging that survival preparation is inherently speculative as well. I’ve spent a lot of money on survival prep that may not ever get used if there’s not a food emergency in the US. This activity is indeed very analogous to the risk/reward of a speculative investment, although I, too, would elevate preparing for “food insecurity” over financial positioning for the coming financial evisceration of companies complicity in the canal’s mass murders.