04-22-2017, 02:59 PM | #11 |
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Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics
One post apocalypse setting I ran used water credits (nicknamed Dollarados by my players, since the game took place on the Colorado Plateau), issued by the regional authority. I'm sure Marx would have something to say about the control of the means of purification.
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04-22-2017, 03:32 PM | #12 |
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Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics
In the post-apoc fiction I read in my youth, gold was a dangerous medium of exchange because it tended to become radioactive.
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04-22-2017, 04:18 PM | #13 | |
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Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics
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What I think is realistic for the majority of scenarios is that immediately after the crisis an informal barter system starts with gold just one of many traded goods. As time passed the perceived value of gold would increase until it became effectively the first currency. There might be specific scenarios where a particular product makes more sense as currency like: clean water, which was mentioned in another post. Overall I think gold is the most likely. |
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04-22-2017, 04:35 PM | #14 |
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Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics
What about Bitcoins as currency? If a disease wipes out 99.9% of humanity but most infrastructure is left intact could Bitcoin become the dominant method of exchange?
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04-22-2017, 05:16 PM | #15 | |
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Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics
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ETA: Leaving aside the serious problems inherent in the bitcoin model that make it unsustainable in the long run, digital infrastructure wouldn't stay intact very long in such a scenario, because there'd be nobody to do maintenance, run generating plants, etc. Last edited by Dalillama; 04-22-2017 at 05:27 PM. |
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04-22-2017, 10:57 PM | #16 |
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Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics
So "no" to Bitcoin.
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04-23-2017, 01:59 AM | #17 |
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Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics
Nope. Consumables make very bad currency.
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04-23-2017, 02:08 AM | #18 |
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Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics
But Fallout, Gamma World and Hiero do have that much stable infrastructure. Not every post-apocalypse setting is immediately post-apocalypse.
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04-23-2017, 03:59 AM | #19 |
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Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics
i found this quite useful
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04-23-2017, 06:58 AM | #20 |
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Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics
They seem to not understand the difference in a currency and a barter good.
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