RE: "Jingle-Leg" is: A condition caused by carrying too much pocket silver! 🥈#pocketsilverchallenge
Bah, how did I miss this post? /grumble I really hate it that Discord is blocked at my work now. :(
It is really unfortunate how uninformed people are these days. On a Silver Shield video, I got into it with a few people earlier.
They were raging against precious metals in favor of crypto. I gave them modern day examples of how crypto does not work in emergencies. Puerto Rico and places in Africa during past disasters and economic turmoil are perfect examples. Heck, in Africa, people were panning for gold to get their daily supplies. That is recent history, not something from the past.
In Puerto Rico, people couldn't even get cell service let alone the Internet. All electronic transactions were impossible. The people bartered, and bartering people assume precious metals will still be worth something in the future. It retains purchasing power no matter what happens. We could have a full nuclear exchange, and in the recovery precious metals would be used as money... STILL!
Zimbabwe really ring a bell now that I think about it, @finnian.
You buy a trillion dollars in Zimbabwe notes on eBay for a dollar! People were digging in dirt for drabs of gold to eat. That's sickening. Not the people are starving because their government currency ended up worthless (who knew that would happen?!) but what makes my heart ache = the lack of knowledge. The path to real freedom is not through money, but rather independence comes from knowledge and skills. Something you've talked extensively about on the blockchain!!
Yet, the knowledge is not being received like it should. Now, whether that's from greed and lust for riches or from suppression of education - I don't know. What I do know is this: if you can gain access to the Internet in its entirety (unless you live in a place like China where it is "censored") then you have access to freedom.
Precious metals are far and wide the GIANT to the ant when it comes to stored value. Crypto is an EMP away, natural or man-made away from disruption; metals are subject to what we have, right now - that we can feel. Holding money and assuming you can hold that same value in money is two entirely different things. Tangible assets bs. Virtual...lets get really real here 😉 You and I both know which one you can survive on ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. <---- that's a period..lol you already know, Finnian.