• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, if I found like a hundred thousand in cash, it wouldn’t get into a bank account, I’d just be buying groceries and retail purchases in cash for a long time, and saving the money I would have spent normally. Maybe asking places to make change so if the serial numbers get noted, things get spread about a bit.

              • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
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                3 days ago

                How much do you reckon groceries will cost then? From what I’ve seen, collapse brings neither groceries nor safety.

                • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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                  In the short term it’ll certainly suck but long term it’d probably end up being better for everyone, the problem with the fed is both a short term and long term problem. While groceries may get expensive for a couple years it’s unlikely theyd be nearly as fluctuate as they are now simply cause the states would be incapable of doing nearly as much stupid shit.

                  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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                    It’s not usually just thst groceries get expensive. They usually get incredibly scarce too.

                    People starve when things collapse.

                    Revolutions happened with people starve.

                    Lots of people die when revolutions happen.

                    None of it is necessary if democracy can actually happen. We need citizens united, first past the post, and the electoral college systems removed. Then shit can change.

          • quill7513@anarchist.nexus
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            3 days ago

            just everything being expensive because we pay the monetary price of the colonial wars our oligarch overlords enact abroad to enrich themselves

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      Don’t forget any home improvement tasks. Need your yard leveled? Landscapers would love to give a slight cash discount.

      Tree needs taking down? Cash.

      Tuckpointing a chimney? Cash.

      Annoyingly, you can’t actually use “cash” cash for a cash down payment on a house. Mortgage lenders like to know where the money is coming from.