calamitysandra
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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy Current money is fiat. People like money. So who wants paper roses when real ones are much nicer. Who would want roses, if what they need is food, shelter, clothing? You know, if instead of investing in silver and gold, you were investing in making yourself self sufficient, that would make much more sense. Keeping a vegetable garden, building a greenhouse, learning about basic husbandry of chickens and pigs, maybe even cows, acquiring those animals and all that comes with them, investing in solar panels or other forms of alternate energy sources ... All this would make more sense in preparing for an apocalyptic society like the one you have been auguring about, than buying gold and silver. Those metals hold only value because we have assigned it to them. Just like the evil fiat money you rant about. If there is a down break of society, metals only really useful for decorative purposes will not be valued very highly.
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