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Originally Posted by Nikki_Licks
OK. But lets say the person selling or trading has everything you mention, except the items I mentioned, do you think he will be interested in trading? I do.
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I'm sorry, what items did you mention? The gold and diamonds? If that's what you meant I don't think they have much value in a "collapse". They have value as a commodity which increases as a hedge in uncertain times, but that is because investors, while uncertain, are not envisioning going back 200 years or they would be doing the compound/security/arms/water/food/off grid thing.
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The people with weapons and ammo will not bother with trading; they will simply shoot you and take what they want.
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Agreed. In "collapse" mode this will be happening in areas. But, like has been mentioned, I can envision places like where I have my farm in North Georgia where people ban together and share/barter to get by and this includes security.
In Panama City, Panama where I live now, probably not a great place to be. lol
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When I think of collapse, I think of all out total ciaos and each man for him self?.. maybe I am understanding collapse differently than you folks ;)
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Understood. I mentioned that it would come down to how you define "collapse". I'm operating of your basic definition here.
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I do understand your point, don't get me wrong, just seeing it from another angle. If in fact anything like this happens, we are all fucked in one way or another and no one can predict the outcome....
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Agreed. But, this scenario that we are all wasting our time bantering on about I see as so remote that I'm betting no one here is actually following through on the compound/security/arms/water/food/off grid thing.
I guess my ass will be back in GA if this happens and I can get there. Might even have to bring my mule out of retirement!
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