Bartering

[Mortblanc]

Bartering and trade is a normal course of human behavior. Trade centers and trade networks exist all the way back into the stone ages.

Do not expect trade and economics to stop just because SHTF.

The two universal trade items down through history have been alcohol and salt.

Writing was developed to preserve the beer recipes.

Counting was invented to keep up with the bar tab.

The first recorded battle of human history was over possession of a salt spring at a place in the middle east called Esalt.

Trade leads to wealth, wealth leads to power, power leads to domination.

If it is survival you seek, trade or die.

I know that those who wish for a return to the stone age do not want to face that, but the stone age people did not like their condition very much, so they left it behind without hesitation and took their produce, wool, sea shells and furs to trade them for metal knives, axes and the occasional Chinese motor scooter.