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originally posted by: JUhrman
originally posted by: JimNasium
For those who are squirreling away gold/silver, Wouldn't those "promises" be just as worthless as the cash?
Of course it will be.
If you want to know what you need to survive an economic crash just see how people survived in a war torn nation during world wars (more familiar to people living where attacks actually took place).
Basically the whole society doesn't become mad-max style. That's a survivalist fantasy and never happened in real life history.
What happens is people gather around the place where there traditionally was agriculture because it's the main thing you will need: daily food.
So small communities will form around these places and your value will be determined by what you can bring to this community.
So the minimum you need to survive the meltdown of a society is this:
- living close to at least a farm
- having a roof
- having a bike or horse to travel on longer distance without the need for oil
- having useful objects (tools, books, weapons, cooking ware, salt, ...)
- having tradeable objects (cigarettes, alcohol)
And that's it. Gold we loose a lot of value because you can't eat gold.
Everything above will be all you really need and everything else is superfluous.
And lol if you think you will survive on your own without belonging to a community
originally posted by: butcherguy
I will stock up on nonperishable food items and ammunition.
Our cash will be worth next to nothing when the insane inflation happens.
originally posted by: JUhrman
a reply to: butcherguy
Hey I asked because you used the future tense. So you know, it means you haven't started already
originally posted by: butcherguy
open for you to insinuate that I am too stupid to prepare for a rainy day