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Old 06-13-2025, 05:44 PM
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[QUOTE=HappyTraveler;2438819]Couple things worth mentioning.
I've been reading a couple of news/financial/political blogs for over a dozen years and I always find it interesting that most people seem to think of SHTF scenarios in the most stark, Mad Max-type terms. The Great Depression wasn't like that neither was the massive inflationary period of the 70s or the more recent "Great Recession". There can be longish periods (years) where many things are scarce and plenty are without jobs, incomes, etc. But, it isn't an end-of-the-world dynamic like they imagine.

If the dollar and world money systems collapse, you won't just see reduced buying power. There will be no method of exchange unless we go back to trading beads, shells, furs, etc. It would be reestablished eventually, if we haven't canabalized each other in the interim for sustanence and survival.