Is another big steal imminent?

[Cratic3947]

I read a article pointing out that gas is still 25 cents a gallon, if you pay in our old pre-1964 silver coins…

[Rurudyne]

By that metric in most places regular gas is down a bit compared to the silver in an old quarter.

[Optrader]

@Borgia_dude

@Dem

@Optrader

gold standard.

What’s up with people and complaining about the gold standard. There is no intrinsic value in gold. It only had value, because we said it had value.

Trading gold as means to purchase goods is no different than when people traded see shells.

Peoples who used rice as currency made more sense than using gold.

Yeah. I’ve never understood the desire to hoard gold anticipating an apocalypse. If it truly were an apocalyptic event, what value is gold? You can’t eat it. It won’t heal you. It isn’t used to manufacture anything helpful. I understand it’s value through history as a medium of exchange but I don’t think that would continue in true apocalyptic scenarios. Perhaps it would in less apocalyptic disaster scenarios though.

You’re right, you can’t eat gold but I can’t think of a time in history that gold hasn’t been highly valued either. Personally, I believe an apocalypse is coming, but when I don’t know. In the meantime, I think it’s prudent to be prepared for less than apocalyptic scenarios. Keeping a modest amount of cash or other valuables at home against emergencies or a few weeks food etc.

The government is concerned first and foremost with its own perpetuation. You’ve heard the saying power corrupts and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. Rome fell due to internal corruption and I believe we’re going to go down the same path to self destruction. Our leaders have become so blatantly corrupt and drunk on power that they don’t even bother to hide what they’re doing any more. They’ve spent decades so stupefying Americans and conditioning them to obey without question they no longer have to.

Yes, they are after the control of our every financial transaction. They want to know every single thing we buy and they want us to work like drones every second they can force us to to
support the state and so far they have the ignorance and /or apathy of enough people to have a good shot at pulling it off…

[NJBob]

@Borgia_dude

I’ve never understood the desire to hoard gold anticipating an apocalypse. If it truly were an apocalyptic event, what value is gold? You can’t eat it. It won’t heal you. It isn’t used to manufacture anything helpful. I understand it’s value through history as a medium of exchange but I don’t think that would continue in true apocalyptic scenarios. Perhaps it would in less apocalyptic disaster scenarios though.

Forget gold, the currency of the apocalypse will be nips, those little 50ml bottles of booze.