I caught sight of this the other day.
The ad was on page A3.
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Probably the oldest and most enduring problem in political science; with most of the proposed solutions having some messy failures under test on their record.
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Cash, gold, silver… The problem is that if there’s no economy in that End Times Hellscape outside, no one is going to have anything to sell, and even if a gang has just looted the last liquor store, what do they need with your tokens of exchange? (“Thanks, but we know a gang that has spare bullets and cans of beans.”)
If things rebuilt to the point that the economy was too complex to be handled by surplus barter or a trading post ledger, then they might start using a form of currency, but it wouldn’t be based on something that a bunch of useless a-holes in a fort were sitting on a stockpile of it. (If nothing else, the buying power would sharply decrease as the supply was swamped.)
Rather than hording tokens of exchange, which aren’t integrated into the economy, they should really think about their post-apocalyptic occupation, or some other value-added, but it’ll probably be bandit king.
Good luck. Even after an apocalypse, it’d take a long time to use up the American supply of guns and ammo. Those peasants will shoot back.
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Heh. And then the Hunt Bros were margin-called into oblivion. Good times!
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The funniest scam in this category was Glen Beck selling even pricier numismatic gold as the best post-apocalyptic currency. Apparently there’s nothing that excites a bloodthirsty warlord more than a finely etched liberty head on the coin you’re using to pay for your water ration.
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