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Cadence's avatar

Currency is just a mutual agreement. One of the nation's value can be observed by its stability, and how it treats its own people. The greater the inequality the more unstable if becomes, simply because no one enjoys being a victim and a scapegoat for someone else.

The best case scenario is a nation made up of people that believe in it, and pull together.

Life isn't all about currency, but of collective will of its nation. More simply; life is meant to be lived with feet on the ground, instead of juggling abstract concepts of power and money.

Life could be much much simpler if we did away with the bullshit, and learnt to live well (not in excess as the elites did, but sensibly, sustainably, and joyfully. It's not a fluffy dream if we want it, and we learn to stop pretending that anything anything more valuable than first and foremost meeting the basic needs of all. We really have it all backwards, worshipping and wasting energy on things that doesn't sustain us)

Good luck to you all. I'm a nobody, I don't have the power to change the course of this sinking ship of humanity, but it does feel rather silly to witness nonsense take place with so much effort and misplaced sophistication.

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Kelly Harbeson's avatar

Precious metals are a way to hedge against value loss in your other assets, but much of the talk about the end of the dollar sounds like children describing what they would do if they could fly. US debt is approaching $30 trillion. That is about one of every six dollars worth of currency on the planet. If the USD sinks, it will drag the other monetary systems with it. I have almost $20K of gold on hand. How long could I live off of it, even if I could prevent its theft? There aren't many countries that are self-sufficient with food and energy. Canada, the US and Mexico will be "squating in tall cotton" while the rest of the globalized system collapses. I can't do anything about it so I refuse to let it freak me out.

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