We Need Money

[Scythe13]

This is going to upset a lot of people, and probably make just as many smile.

After TSHTF, if we are put back to a medieval situation, we will still need some kind of monetary system. If we don't, then commerce will die and us with it.

I'll be fair, barter items are a great idea, providing the other person you are bartering with has something you want. But what if they haven't?

If you saw someone willing to trade what you wanted and they had, but they didn't want anything you were offering.....when what?

Think about it this way. As a made up example, I'm going to be the person wanting what you have. You have baked a cake (OOOOOW I LOVE THE CAKE!!!) You are willing to trade the cake, but I have nothing you want. So logically, we can't do business. I still want that cake, so I'll do what I have to do to get that cake. I'm going to rip open anyone that doesn't want to trade something I have for a tasty cake. And as a result....people die.....which isn't cool.

A form of commerce and a transfer of wealth, along with a held value of that item, are required. We'll need a form of money, not of currency.

The difference between money and currency: Money has value, a bar of gold is valuable as gold. Currency doesn't have to have value, a five pound note is a piece of paper, but the perception is that is has value. Money can be currency, but currency isn't always money.

So what we will need will be money, after TSHTF.