That's very true. If you could somehow defend your hoard of difficult to secure/transport metals you could be rich if things stabilize. But you'd still need a massive stockpile of the most precious metals, lead and brass, to do it, not to mention a lot of very trustworthy/saintlike warm bodies to help you guard and transport it all.
The amusing thing is, you'd have a much easier time of just buying everyone's crypto wallets in that scenario. Trade one hardtack biscuit per bitcoin wallet and then if things stabilized again you'd be massively more wealthy than the guy who collected gold/silver, assuming that he wasn't dead in a ditch somewhere killed by thieves because he was carting around an enormous pile of heavy, shiny metals.
That's very true. If you could somehow defend your hoard of difficult to secure/transport metals you could be rich if things stabilize. But you'd still need a massive stockpile of the most precious metals, lead and brass, to do it, not to mention a lot of *very trustworthy/saintlike* warm bodies to help you guard and transport it all.
The amusing thing is, you'd have a much easier time of just buying everyone's crypto wallets in that scenario. Trade one hardtack biscuit per bitcoin wallet and then if things stabilized again you'd be massively more wealthy than the guy who collected gold/silver, assuming that he wasn't dead in a ditch somewhere killed by thieves because he was carting around an enormous pile of heavy, shiny metals.
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