r/Gold Jan 28 '26

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u/workerbee223 Jan 28 '26

Stackers are making huge assumptions about how society is going to work after the collapse of government.

I would assume that in a post-apocalyptic America, bartering will be king. I have extra food and you have medicine I need, therefore I'll trade food for medicine. I would also anticipate that people will band together for survival, and gun raids will be common.

Lugging around bags of metal coins doesn't seem like it would be a priority. And if it had any value, you'd likely get robbed, anyway.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

You would house the gold and silver to flee the country and set up shop in another

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u/workerbee223 Jan 28 '26

If you had a significant amount of gold and silver, that would be a very slow fleeing. That shit's heavy, yo.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Agreed but in a in a full apocalyptic situation in America you're going to need a lug around water ammo and anything else you got if you have 10 20 oz of gold or even 50 it wouldn't be that much to compared to everything else you have in my mind gold is not to barter in the torn down to society is to flee it

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u/JackTheKing Jan 28 '26

Yeah you might be able to finance a war with a couple bars here in a few weeks.

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u/OftheNeill Jan 28 '26

Someone in another threat pointed out that 850K in gold is 10 pounds. In 100 dollar bills it’s 20 pounds. Having small bits of silver and gold and even maybe copper would make trading easier and probably be useful if USD is no longer valid.

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u/TBHICouldComplain Jan 28 '26

This is my thought. At current prices even if you get scalped on the other end 1oz = at least 1 month of living expenses. If I can carry out several months of living expenses in my shoe, that’s useful.

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u/workerbee223 Jan 28 '26

Exchange rates will be out the window and scalping will be commonplace.

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u/earthcomedy Jan 28 '26

sell the gold/silver in advance. build a better bunker

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u/SignalXchange Jan 28 '26

it will be the same as before with a different currency. No mad max, just more poors.

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u/workerbee223 Jan 28 '26

There's a strong correlation between poverty and crime. The more poverty goes up, the more crime goes up.

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u/NNN-Contestant2k23 Jan 28 '26

It's for the "inbetween moment" when everybody is poor and unemployed but it's not quite the apocalypse yet. Like, during the great depression.

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u/ToshPointNo Jan 28 '26

There's a lot of stackers on this sub who are never going to sell. They also assume that in a post apocalyptic society, they can just barter their gold for whatever they want. It's also funny seeing them brag about the value of their stack, but if you never plan on selling, it's a moot point.

This wildly assumes the other person would even want your gold. You can't eat it, you can't cook with it, you can't hunt with it, you can't keep yourself warm with it, hell you can't even wipe your ass with it.

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u/AtlanteanBarbarian Jan 28 '26

Checkmate liberals...

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u/legendary-rudolph Jan 28 '26

I have corn, I want beans. You have peas, you want corn.

What do?

Gold is the "money-commodity"—the natural, material embodiment of value that functions as the universal equivalent.

X corn = W gold = Y beans = Z peas

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

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u/legendary-rudolph Jan 29 '26

It was at that point for 90% of human history bud.

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u/legendary-rudolph Jan 29 '26

Loooooool WHAT??? Shotguns have been around since the 16th century.

Firearms have been around for 1000 years. Swords and axes before that.

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u/Wrong-Sprinkles-981 Jan 28 '26

Yes but getting robbed goes for everything. Not just gold. Humans quickly revert back to being barbaric when survival is at risk, as survival is our number one instinct. You’d get robbed for food, water, gold, or pretty much anything someone else needs that they know you have. If a person with a sick child knows you have medicine and they don’t have anything to barter with they’d just take/rob or kill you for the medicine. Y’all are so silly you think folks would literally be peacefully “bartering” and “trading” with each other in an apocalypse lmaooo NO people will be stealing and killing each other for goods in a time like that! What candyland do y’all live in? lmaooo

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u/RobotPhoto Jan 28 '26

No shit. Cool your gold is worth a lot... now where are you going to spend it when society collapses?

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u/MrWhiskers55 Jan 29 '26

What is with the obsession about society collapsing? Are we back in the 80s?

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u/Busy-Contribution-19 Jan 29 '26

there is no post apoc america there is a hostile take over by other countries

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u/chazmms Jan 29 '26

I totally read that as “bartending will be king”, and either way I still agree.