Of Value today---

>Stocks,realestate,fuel,IRAs,401ks,digitalbankaccounts,

>Of Value Next year---

Kerosene,gas,food,water,cash,gold,

Please tell me what your humble opinion is of an exchange value in the hypothetical new world. Example:

I will give you $500.00 cash for that 5000sq.ft. luxury home!

-- d.b. (dciinc@aol.com), November 06, 1999

Answers

It's all local.

;-D

(Kount your Karma instead).

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 06, 1999.

The new currency will be the:

TUNA (as in can of)

Alternate form of currency is the ROLL (as in toilet paper)

-- Sally Strackbein (sally@y2kkitchen.com), November 06, 1999.

Good ones!!!!!!!!! How about professional barters too? "Out of Dope" Doctors will be begging Chiropractors to heal them with their hands! Hookers will require orgasims. I'll donate a set of Anthony Robbins audio cassettes to decorate next years Christmas tree, pull out the tape, better than tins

-- Marilyn (Me@MarilynEllis.com), November 07, 1999.

continued.....better than TINSEL...........A pair of excellent hiking boots for a good hand tool set. Two roundtrip tickets to Europe,good kindeling,in exchange for a match to light the fire.

-- Marilyn (Me@MarilynEllis.com), November 07, 1999.

Marilyn: Do you like to mudwrestle?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), November 07, 1999.

Dammit! King of Spain you're a MORON SICKO ONE TRACK MIND! I'm sick to death of your mudwrestling crap!!!! Grow up man! Go take your sexual fantasies and go jump your old lady's bones!

-- Marilyn (Me@MarilynEllis.com), November 07, 1999.

Hey, Thanks to whoever pretended they were me and posted that wonderful attack post to the gooey fake King...perhaps he's been gored one too many times during bull running season. Or perhaps he is also self flagulting and he posted the rebutal himself and signed my name. Either way.....scitzo or ally....regards.................

-- Marilyn (me@MarilynEllis.com), November 07, 1999.

Good Cannabis will be worth a lot for its stress relieving qualities not to mention the medical properties

-- matt (whome@somewhere.nz), November 07, 1999.

Hey Marilyn,

Do you like to Foxy Box?

-- Gregg (g.abbott@starting-point.com), November 07, 1999.

TP ROLL -- ROTFWMAO (Rolling on the floor wiping my ...)

-- (A@AisA.com), November 07, 1999.

got Cannabis

MMONGO

-- mongo (mongo2@prodigy.net), November 07, 1999.

That might explain the paranoia there mongo....

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan@Yahoo.com), November 07, 1999.

As a casual history student, I can tell you that in a barter economy, the value of a thing is - simply - exactly as much as someone will offer you for it at the time and place that you trade, and that's not necessarily even what you will RECEIVE for it. Let me explain with a few examples.

Some historical examples: A horse is worth a lot more in spring than in autumn. In spring, you can use it to plow your fields, in autumn, it's useless (except as food) and you have to "spend" feed to keep it alive anyway.

If you're bartering, it's hard to give "change". Paper and even metal money has no intrinsic value (you can't eat it or use it for shelter, and burning money doesn't keep you warm for long). That's not a problem as long as the money has an agreed and stable value to (pay attention) EVERYONE YOU TRADE WITH. So if Ms Muffin gives you gold bullion, but Mr Miggins won't take it for those tins of spam he has stored, then it's worthless to you. The solution is simple: know the people you trade with, and trade on a "credit" system. The Vikings used tally sticks - basically just sticks with an identifying mark or name, and some notches, representing small amounts of credit. It sounds daft, but it was simple and it worked, but ONLY for trading with people you knew and trusted. Think about that: how many of your neighbours do you know and trust?

I present this only because I'm interested in the subject. I don't think we'll experience a breakdown of anything like this degree. But if we do, YOU money's no good. ;)

- Colin MacDonald -

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), November 07, 1999.

Where I live now

1 oz (excellent) weed = $320.00

1 pound organic chicken = $1.69

I predict next year 1 oz weed will = 1 pound chicken

-- Dolma Lhamo (I'm@nonymous.now), November 07, 1999.