The War On Cash

[Fife]

Any of you guys done much IRL bartering?

When I was a kid in west Tennessee, there was a bbq joint in town that would take a couple of squirrels or catfish in trade for some pork. I like shooting squirrels and catching catfish, but don't care for eating either very much. I do love pig, tho, so nothing went to waste, and like all honest free trades, everybody involved was happy.

We were all kids, fife. We traded transformers for GI Joes, Pink Floyd tapes for Led Zeppelin tapes.. Baseball cards, Garbage Pale Kids..

I know what kind of stuff Florida kids "trade" for.

I wasn't being very clear I guess, I was talking about bartering at a retail establishment.

That's what the OP and Z's comment about Greece, and your comment about WHISKEEEEYYY had me thinking of.

You know, ways to fuck over the state and/or its bank satellites/masters.

The government can outlaw bitcoin, gold, silver, whiskey, pretty much anything when it comes to actual money. I guess catfish and squirrels aren't immune.

[Okeefenokee]

Then we are right back to the whiskey tax fiasco.

I was thinking the same thing.

Whiskey Rebellion 2.0

... and then the Twelvinator Militia burned down the capitol.

[Okeefenokee]

Any of you guys done much IRL bartering?

When I was a kid in west Tennessee, there was a bbq joint in town that would take a couple of squirrels or catfish in trade for some pork. I like shooting squirrels and catching catfish, but don't care for eating either very much. I do love pig, tho, so nothing went to waste, and like all honest free trades, everybody involved was happy.

We were all kids, fife. We traded transformers for GI Joes, Pink Floyd tapes for Led Zeppelin tapes.. Baseball cards, Garbage Pale Kids..

pretty sure I traded some self respect for some ass.

[C-Mag]

Any of you guys done much IRL bartering?

When I was a kid in west Tennessee, there was a bbq joint in town that would take a couple of squirrels or catfish in trade for some pork. I like shooting squirrels and catching catfish, but don't care for eating either very much. I do love pig, tho, so nothing went to waste, and like all honest free trades, everybody involved was happy.

Whenever I can.
I bought a new place last year and put up a new shop. Hired a guy with equipment and a crew to set trusses and sheet. There was an old trailer left on the property he was interested in. I needed a pump house built, so I traded him the trailer for labor building the pump house.

[Lemonade]

Any of you guys done much IRL bartering?

When I was a kid in west Tennessee, there was a bbq joint in town that would take a couple of squirrels or catfish in trade for some pork. I like shooting squirrels and catching catfish, but don't care for eating either very much. I do love pig, tho, so nothing went to waste, and like all honest free trades, everybody involved was happy.

I'm friends with some brewers and trade homemade food for beer.

[doc_loliday]

There is nothing the federal government hates more than people having any kind of privacy and financial discretion in their lives.

I think it is the government that is going to keep cash alive. So long as there is a need for illicit goods and services there will be a need for cash and since our elected representatives use these goods and services, they also need cash.

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

Who likes cash best?
Drug dealers.
Prostitutes.
Thieves.

Basically, criminals.

I'm a big fan of cash myself.

[Martin Hash]

I think the amount of counterfeit money is underestimated, but it's definitely in the 100s of $millions. Then there's the technically not counterfeit but not on the books money we send to places like Iraq to prop up their economy. That's in the billions. As long as it doesn't make its way back here, what do we care if we're giving away paper. Fiat currency is a tremendous way of building an economy, especially one that's trusted like the $.

[apeman]

That seems like a free lunch.

[Martin Hash]

That seems like a free lunch.

It's the dividends of being a Super Power for 50 years.