Is your shop prepared for the upcoming barter system?

[Signarama Jockey]

Depends on how it is setup. It too would have to be decoupled from the dollar in under to be on equal footing with the other currencies as well (unless we totally get away from any such type of fiat currency, which may be possible, people were already trying to push cashless not too long ago).

Well, Nixon and FDR did the legwork to decouple the dollar from gold already. Right now, gold can be valued in dollars per oz, but it's not tied to it any more than the price of pizza is. Right now, gold and silver are just commodities with a long history of perceived value and industrial utility. I'll be the first to admit that just because gold and silver have been used as money for literally thousands of years does not mean that they will always be, but it is hard to ignore such a strong record.

The government will do everything it can to keep a strangle hold on our finances so they can feed off of us like vampires. When the dollar dies, and whatever alternative currency comes into play, the government will come after us. I expect they will criminalize and confiscate gold (again) or bitcoin or silver or barter and they will impose some new scheme that we will be forced to use under the threat of imprisonment.

 

[Boudica]

 

[Johnny Best]

Signarama Jockey will start collecting shells..
"Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money, and was once commonly used in many parts of the world. Shell money usually consisted of whole or partial sea shells, often worked into beads or otherwise shaped. The use of shells in trade began as direct commodity exchange, the shells having use-value as body ornamentation"

 

[GAC05]

Signarama Jockey will start collecting shells..
"Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money, and was once commonly used in many parts of the world. Shell money usually consisted of whole or partial sea shells, often worked into beads or otherwise shaped. The use of shells in trade began as direct commodity exchange, the shells having use-value as body ornamentation"

Got any change, can you break a 20(ton)?

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

where is our daily silver price? Silver hit a high of $47 back in 2011. So if you bought during the hype like signrama keeps doing, you would have lost 32% over the next 13 years. If on that same day you bought a Nasdaq tracking ETF, you would have made an 851% return. I know it's not a popular way of thinking, since everyone assumes doomsday is coming and the country will just end... doesn't matter who is president either... it's dumb to bet against America.

 

[Signarama Jockey]

Signarama Jockey will start collecting shells..
"Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money, and was once commonly used in many parts of the world. Shell money usually consisted of whole or partial sea shells, often worked into beads or otherwise shaped. The use of shells in trade began as direct commodity exchange, the shells having use-value as body ornamentation"

Is it any weirder than trading little pieces of printed paper back and forth?

Also, tell me how many dollars it takes to purchase a single shell necklace. If it's more than one dollar, technically the shells are worth more than the paper is.

 

[Boudica]

at least you can hold it in your hand and see it. Bitcoin you cant touch or see, I still can't wrap my head around how that works. But I do know the giant facilities where they "store" bitcoin is a health hazard to the unfortunate people who live near a bitcoin storage facility.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

Is it any weirder than trading little pieces of printed paper back and forth?

Also, tell me how many dollars it takes to purchase a single shell necklace. If it's more than one dollar, technically the shells are worth more than the paper is.

Shell, paper, gold... It's all the same. We assign value to things. Gold no different than shell.