You can always buy through the online dealers if the local stores won’t sell.
The stock market is about to crash and the dollar is being destroyed by inflation. I think precious metals are really where people need to put their money right now to retain value. But I also think that the way the silver market has been manipulated for decades, investing in silver is going to be much greater than just storing value, people will make a killing by gaining a half centuries worth of market correction over the course of a year if WSBs gets enough traction buying silver.
It depends how badly shit hits the fan. If it’s just in the US, silver would be something that we have that still has value to the rest of the world. If shit hits the fan worldwide and we’re living off the land, metals wouldn’t be a medium of exchange until we were doing more than just trying not to die. People would barter first, but a medium of exchange is eventually needed. You grow wheat and your neighbor who thinks his dick is going to fly off if he eats gluten happens to be the guy with the cows who produce milk. You could really use some milk for your cereal you make with your wheat, but wheat is your trade and the milk dude doesn’t want it. You’d have to trade some of your wheat with the dude who grows potatoes just to get something that the dude with the milk wants, so in a couple days you trek over to the potato guys farm and trade him some wheat for his potatoes, then you go back to the dairy farm only to find out that the gluten free milk guy ended up getting a sack of potatoes yesterday and doesn’t need any anymore. Now you’re left sitting there thirsty as fuck eating some potatoes with your cereal instead of milk.
See? What a pain in the ass to go through just because you wanted some goddamn milk for your cereal. If only there was something that everyone wanted because it was a means to get anything that they want... something has to fill that role, and it’s been precious metals for millennia. They’re a tried and true currency so it makes sense that people would go back to it.
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You can always buy through the online dealers if the local stores won’t sell.
The stock market is about to crash and the dollar is being destroyed by inflation. I think precious metals are really where people need to put their money right now to retain value. But I also think that the way the silver market has been manipulated for decades, investing in silver is going to be much greater than just storing value, people will make a killing by gaining a half centuries worth of market correction over the course of a year if WSBs gets enough traction buying silver.
It depends how badly shit hits the fan. If it’s just in the US, silver would be something that we have that still has value to the rest of the world. If shit hits the fan worldwide and we’re living off the land, metals wouldn’t be a medium of exchange until we were doing more than just trying not to die. People would barter first, but a medium of exchange is eventually needed. You grow wheat and your neighbor who thinks his dick is going to fly off if he eats gluten happens to be the guy with the cows who produce milk. You could really use some milk for your cereal you make with your wheat, but wheat is your trade and the milk dude doesn’t want it. You’d have to trade some of your wheat with the dude who grows potatoes just to get something that the dude with the milk wants, so in a couple days you trek over to the potato guys farm and trade him some wheat for his potatoes, then you go back to the dairy farm only to find out that the gluten free milk guy ended up getting a sack of potatoes yesterday and doesn’t need any anymore. Now you’re left sitting there thirsty as fuck eating some potatoes with your cereal instead of milk.
See? What a pain in the ass to go through just because you wanted some goddamn milk for your cereal. If only there was something that everyone wanted because it was a means to get anything that they want... something has to fill that role, and it’s been precious metals for millennia. They’re a tried and true currency so it makes sense that people would go back to it.
Or just kill him and do it the easey way.
In Argentina, when they had their monetary crisis, barter was in precious metals on the street for goods and services.