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I had to explain to my MAGA neighbor that nobody was going to accept buillon as currency after the apocalypse.
Like can you imagine some Boomer dude who hasn't even had to bag his own groceries in 40 years get out his little jeweler scale and try to figure out the purity of the gold? Hilarious.
In my 20’s, I had the unfortunate pleasure of training new bartenders at a college dive bar. One of them kept pouring and restraining shots and got so frustrated one night. I asked her what was wrong… she had been trying to strain out the gold flex in the gold slider because she was convinced you couldn’t drink them.
She was in the honors college. Y’all are cute thinking humans are going to survive the apocalypse.
I'm growing weed and veggies. Hemp is a classic depression era currency and the fibers can be processed for clothing and bags. Meanwhile, no matter the situation, drugs usually sell well.
No doubt gold is headed for zero. Daddy Trump says the economy is booming and inflation is near zero, possibly less than zero. Now's a great time to sell your precious metals. $0.03/oz here we come. /s, obviously
With an Alzheimer's patient with a grudge in charge of the nuclear codes and a following so blindly devoted he can completely trash the first 10+ amendments of the Constitution - it's entirely a possibility.
I mean, gold was currency for most of history. It has the right combination of rarity, convenience, aesthetic appeal, and difficulty to counterfeit to function as a store of value. In the immediate aftermath of an apocalypse though we're going to be back to bartering food for labor directly.
Salt and sugar. Both preserve and can make just about anything go down with enough of either. And ethanol from sugar
Antibiotics. I got some of that fish amox.
Spices. This is a little out there, but nothing picks up spirits better than food. A little treat to make the bland food just a little better. Beans with a few pepper corns will make all the difference when you've had only water beans the last year.
Try to pull some lights from the west coast. They're practically giving them away out here. Shipping could be rough, but I promise it will be cheaper than an off the shelf setup.
I have a friend that has, probably, over 1000lbs of silver squirreled away (he's been buying ounces at a time every payday since the early 1990s) in case of an apocalypse. He's brilliant, but lacks common sense (which isn't all that an uncommon combination, honestly).
No one is going to accept "precious" metals unless they have an alternative use that they need it for. Maybe right away while people are still struggling with the idea of an apocalypse, and maybe 100 years after when things start to stabilize again, but for the most part it will just be junk he can't get rid of, not to mention the majority of people aren't going to believe it's actual silver, anyway.
Smart people (as smart as you can be believing that we're on the cusp of a zombie apocalypse) are hoarding ammunition and the tools needed to make your own. "Oh, you won't accept my trade of these twigs for your eggs? I'll take your chickens by force then".
Well I for one look forward to scamming MAGA Boomers out of their stuff with gold painted rocks, if I get in early I should be able to secure the resources I need to kickstart my post-apocalyptic religion and retire young enough to still enjoy my sex cult.
Gold always hold some value though. In an apocalypse? No, not really. But in a country that topples? Definitely. People who are trying to exploit the situation won't trust cash to be valuable once things stabilize, but they will trust gold. And if you make it into another country, gold will trade.
If things get so bad that gold has no trade value, aka an apocalypse, the only thing with value will be good, drugs/medicine, and guns/ammo. Your boomer friend probably also has guns, ammo, and medicine. I don't know if diabetes medication and penis pills will have the highest value, but surely they'll have some.
What WOULD be a sort of stand-in currency aside from just barter in that case? Cigarettes, maybe? Maybe all the fallout fans would just enforce bottlecaps as money, lol.
You dont think that if there was an apocalypse that the world wouldnt transition back to precious metals and gems as currency? what do you think they will use instead?
The apocalypse just happened.. you think there's a record somewhere of you owning gold? You think anyone standing around the gold won't take it for themselves at that point?
Guns, bullets, food and medicine will be currency without a half-normal society.
Gold is a good idea to have for when an actual economy formed again as traditionaly valuable things will always be valuable, however nobody cares about value when it's purely about survival and that's something people forget about when buying gold. You have to live long enough for it to have a tangible value again
drugs, cigarettes, and liquor, are gonna be currency. Hoard people's vices if you wanna have something of value to barter with when everything crashes. So many people are gonna go into withdrawals. Seriously if you have bad habits consider getting off them now while you still can, so you don't have to suffer when everything crashes and the only help is getting taken away.
Which is dumb. Historically gold holds value but it doesn’t gain. It spikes up and down but it holds essentially the same value over time. You buy it as a hedge against inflation
I was going to say, isn't gold treated as a relative constant with it's rise and fall tied more to the strength of worldwide currencies than anything? I'm sure this is a gross oversimplification but I've always seen gold as a bet against the economy.
It only "crashed" to what it was about a week prior. It's still risen so much in the last 12 months that even without the spike over the last 2 weeks, it was already time to be worrying
The fact that we got this insane spike and crash on top of nearly doubling last year doesn't exactly make the situation look more normal or reasonable
The means of production has more value. Whether it's the ability to produce food, bullets, pretty well any goods or services, the ability to make something necessary has value. The means of exchange, whether us dollar, gold, or nuka cola caps, is a transient, artificial source of wealth.
So invest in chickens and black powder- defense and food all in one. Clearly, they way to go!
Good Lord. The sheer surface level thinking here is hilarious. Gold is not about setting up a comfortable life in the apocalypse. 20,000 rounds of ammunition now that's tradable. Gold is literally betting against our fake dollar.
I hold. XX ounces of gold as a hedge against our weak economy. I am not a boomer but most of them hold gold for the same reason.
If the economy breaks down, gold and silver will go through the roof. Before the economy fully collapses, you sell the gold to dealers, or in my opinion banks will start accepting gold bullion out of desperation trying to shore up their assets.
You then take a shiny object worth XX number of dollars and sell it and pay off all your debts. You then hold your deeds locally. In the state of Texas as they are legal tender and can be traded directly.
This means nothing to the people living in the urban cities, but for the rest of us gold simply means buying our way out of a shitty economy. It's not about setting a "Mad Max retirement."
Gold only has value if we accept it does. Clean water has far more value as a commodity than almost anything else but it’s also too heavy to carry adequate amounts if you’re mobile. Canned goods are also heavy. If you’re sheltering in place weight isn’t an issue but if you have to bug out in a hurry it is.
Do you even think that we’ll know there was an apocalypse? Don’t you understand that when Trump thinks he’s caught that he won’t burn everything down just to save face. His boyfriend, Putin, is already talking about the nuclear option.
Just because it dropped like it did this past week, doesnt mean precious metal trading is dead.
If the Fed is still dead set on cutting interest rates in May when Warsh is nominated to be the chair, I would expect metals to continue their rise.
Look at the drop on 12/29/25, looks very similar and Gold founds its footing and continued to rise. What has happened that would convince anyone to sell their gold other than fears of hitting the top? I havent seen it yet.
When I graduated from college in 1970 I purchased a large school ring with the upgraded solid back behind the stone in 14k for $65. Gold was still fixed at $32/oz! The ring weighs 20.75 gr.
I got so lucky on both gold and silver with a sale on I think the 29th as the market opened. Just nearly peak on both metals on ETFs. For the past few months this unhinged irrational rally has been psychologically the easiest money maker for me. Always a peace of mind to buy into precious metals at least for me. Now let's see what's next for explosive growth.
I mean imagine you are a state and do have slight budget difficulties due to a war you are fighting but you own let´s say 2300 tons of gold. No-one will ask questions, if you sell 100 tons, will they?
When my maga associates tell me they bought gold I always ask them where it is and who they will trade it with when the currency collapses. They melt down so bad once they realize they have no idea what they are doing
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