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Originally Posted by NorthernSantuary
It's good to hear the idealistic comments, but as long as you need things from the existing system, you will have to work with a currency/ barter that they accept. Unless you can manufacture toilet paper, than at some point you have to use money to buy it. Same with any issue related to shelter, food, transportation, etc.. Unless your system can create it from scratch, you'll need to have some money / barter power the is accepted by the other system, so you need some transitional money/barter system until you can create everything that you need in your own system/ society... This will take some time.
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When this current system falls you will soon rediscover what it is that you actually "need". I've never seen toilet paper being delivered to native tribes and indeed I wonder how long toilet paper manufacturing plants will stay open if we sink into a barter system? Not real long I'm guessing.
There seems to be an assumption that in the future we will still be mass producing everything and you can just rock on down to a shop and barter with your friendly shop owner for what ever you think you need.
Sorry guys but any kind of money or barter or any system will almost always leave someone out in the cold or in debt.