09-15-2017, 12:14 PM
You can barter with gold, as it's likely to be worth far more than paper money. I agree it won't be worth much if the world truly ends, but the value of gold to the human race has endured thousands of years of hardship. There are a lot of scenarios where the dollar devalues significantly or you have zero ability to access electronic assets that are more plausible than true end of days... like when all the banks in Greece locked their doors to prevent withdrawals. Having some assets in metals in hand could help if you run low on prepped supplies.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth