Topic: 40 Items to Barter in a Post-Collapse World (Read 2055 times)

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Hiding in the bunker will not help. You'll starve to death. Better organize a group consisting of your relatives and close friends. The bigger the group, the more chances you'll have to survive.

Oddly enough in a bitcoin market jobs would probably fluctuate a lot (IF that makes any sense)
Can't imagine an economy that loses jobs if the price drops or rises in bitcoin and requires bailouts more like people will switch and utilize Bitcoin and create more jobs.

In case of a collapse, the BTC exchange rate will go back to $0.0008.

+1, Life in post collapse world could be very unpredictable, better hide on the bunker and wait until its calm and the peace and order is back.

In a scenario like that, I see consistent groups of people (say from 20 to 60, either NRA civilians or army or police) heavily armed, who instead or "bartering" will just shoot you dead and take all your precious goods.

there won't BE a collapse, cause of Bitcoin.  if people lose their jobs, it is our responsibility to get them back (those of us who own 10000+ BTC)'s

Because he was talking about the most basic items needed to survive the apocalypse. If you have 60 minutes time and you needs to be prepared for an apocalypse, you will not try to collect 1,000 different items. At the most, you'll get two or three dozen most basic things.

ruger 10/22 with loaded 25 and 50 round magazines and thousands of rounds of ammo (over 10,000)  is all any person needs for a weapon. In a SHTF situation the caliber is not going to matter that much. If you get shot, you are in deep trouble. It's not going to matter how fast the particular caliber kills... chances are you and your adversary will both shoot each other and both die anyways so the best thing is to avoid a confrontation and keep a low profile.  You can kill a deer and large game with a .22... scope and SHOT PLACEMENT and multiple successive rounds are key here. If you are going up against a bear you better be aiming for the head with a 50 round magazine or two though.  BY FAR the cheapest way to stockpile, as .22 LR can be had for 25 bucks for 550 rounds, far cheaper than any other round.. and Ruger 10/22s and their scopes and high capacity mags are cheap and plentiful items.

12 gauge shotgun is also cheap and plentiful ammo

Aside from that...

toilet paper

water filters

water

food

generators

solar ovens

solar battery chargers and batteries or hand crank models

short wave radio

assets in hard metals in a safe place



I'm not sure how I'd handle anarchy.. I would not loot and pillage and would work to protect the innocent though. I'd make a good leader I think... with swift justice against people who would loot, pillage, or harm innocents.

I just updated the OP with the whole list from the article, instead of just a section
Tobacco and cigarette rolling supplies, are mentioned.

Very true. Could buy pretty much anything with it ^^

True.
I didn't quote the end of the article.
The author left off weapons since (in his opinion) if you trade/barter guns and ammo the other person is armed and ready to steal all of your other stuff.......lol?

He he. In reality I would die cowering in the forest of exposure, exacerbated by an abscess tooth.   

Any type of weaponry or transportation and of course food/water.

medical supplies etc

Very interesting topic! Guns and ammo would definitely be valuable.

There are thousands to barter in the post collapse world. Normal things that we can easily buy now will be very hard find in the post collapse world. Usually scarcity would equate to high demand.

Just my 0.00001

There is an incentive to not prepare:
No one can steal my non-existent stash of nothingness.

Meanwhile, knocking at your door:

I only need a rifle team and a list of preper addresses.   

Cigarettes of course should be on the list !!!