Post Apocalyptic Currency

[EntropicBliss]

Uh, why not use paper money. All it is is bartering. Trading one thing for another. I'm sure peices of paper, like smokes, can be used to purchase things after the Apocolyse (assuming life still exists) If all else fails, monopoly!!!

Paper money is only valuable because a central or private banks insures it's value. In the case of the United States, paper money is only valuable because a central, state owned reserve says it's valuable. As soon as that state/reserve is gone, the money has no value beyond the paper it's written on.

 

[SMILEYkyle21]

i think it will be a return to the barter trade system of old. maybe with coins as well

 

[Spiner909]

Bullets. A la Metro 2033. It makes the most sense, really.

 

[Fwee]

Blowjobs and cheeseburgers, like Stanhope says.
(Blowjobs gets spell-checked?)

 

[kingleonardas]

probably people or sheer force

 

[Flight]

Cheese is clearly the only acceptable currency of the future.

Silliness aside, I do think that trade would be best, i.e. you need a blanket, so you go and, say, offer milk from your cow in exchange.

 

[ucciolord1]

Necklaces strung with human teeth.

 

[ninjajoeman]

bullets

pistol rounds are change

rifles are 5s

shot gun shells are 10 dollars or bucks "get it?"

grenades 50 dollars

rockets 100 dolalrs and so on so forth

 

[Sonofadiddly]

Sheep. Sheep have meat, wool, and are fuzzy wuzzy adorable. I'll trade my bullets for some damn sheep.

 

[ninjajoeman]

Sheep. Sheep have meat, wool, and are fuzzy wuzzy adorable. I'll trade my bullets for some damn sheep.

what happens if the sheep get guns? yea what you gonna do about that?

 

[Ph33nix]

food, water, bullets, guns, shiny things,
working tech, batteries, gas, solar panels, electricity,
lighters, matches, clothes, shelter, seeds, livestock,

 

[ninjajoeman]

food, water, bullets, guns, shiny things,
working tech, batteries, gas, solar panels, electricity,
lighters, matches, clothes, shelter, seeds, livestock,

you got guns and bullets and other people only have food and water you basically got food and water...just saying

 

[rockingnic]

Barter. That's what we did before paper and even coin currency. If you're willing to trade it then it's a deal. It's all about understanding who you're trading with.

 

[aarontg]

Unless we go back to he woodland days of doing equel trade of goods I might say arcade tokens because they would have easily survived the apocalipse and they are simple and universal.

 

[SoranMBane]

It would probably revert to a barter system, so pretty much everything and anything useful could be seen as currency. Some places could just continue using their local coins as currency, though.

 

[Ph33nix]

food, water, bullets, guns, shiny things,
working tech, batteries, gas, solar panels, electricity,
lighters, matches, clothes, shelter, seeds, livestock,

you got guns and bullets and other people only have food and water you basically got food and water...just saying

trade protection for food and water that is the best deal I stand here with my gun and shoot raiders while you work in the field and get us something to eat. and if we have solar panels and car batteries man we are gonna have a nice life.

 

[ethaninja]

Uh, why not use paper money. All it is is bartering. Trading one thing for another. I'm sure peices of paper, like smokes, can be used to purchase things after the Apocolyse (assuming life still exists) If all else fails, monopoly!!!

Paper money is only valuable because a central or private banks insures it's value. In the case of the United States, paper money is only valuable because a central, state owned reserve says it's valuable. As soon as that state/reserve is gone, the money has no value beyond the paper it's written on.

So then how did smokes in prison earn their value?

 

[xHipaboo420x]

Dust.

A fair compromise: everyone would be a bloody millionaire.

 

[lasherman]

Anyone here play the MMORPG Fallen Earth? It's a post-apocalyptic game set around the Grand Canyon, and they use poker chips as currency. It seems like it would work pretty well; they're durable and easy to carry, and have an assigned value.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

US Dollar bills. Cause We survive!