Continuing the thought, as a Doomsday thought experiment enthusiast, I realize that it wouldn't take a very big disruption to make currency and checks and credit cards and electronic money and promises to pay irrelevant. Commodimetrics is simply barter writ small. Writ large, I do not have a pool, but my good neighbor does. I have emergency water filtration gear. He does not. He is over-the-top heavy in ammo for his AK, I am heavy in AR. He doesn't own a 22. There aren't enough squirrels to service my inventory. He has no gas or propane reserve. I do. The list of everyday needs is long. Being good neighbors, we will share generously and without thought to relative values. The rest of unprepared not so good neighbors will pay dearly in barter. If you're a lush, and you run out, how much do you think you will give for a pint of Everclear? You have a small child, and no mulitivitamins? Your alkaline batteries die and you have no rechargeables? "How much of my champagne do you want for a month's supply of you vitamins?" In such an environment unfeedable children will be sold for an ounce of silver. That out of date half used bottle of amoxicillin for an ounce of gold.
But we digress. Silver is still a buy.
But we digress. Silver is still a buy.
