But ammo has to be defended, and that price will be in blood. There is always a bigger fish.
Unless they have a metal detector, nobody will know how much gold I will be carrying. And I could easily carry $100k while still looking like a common, unwashed peasant.
“And I could easily carry $100k while still looking like a common, unwashed peasant.”
The problem is, if there is a collapse, no one will want it. Its price will drop to nothing in days.
If anyone comes for my metals they get the lead first, only get to silver or gold after stepping over bodies.
“...There is always a bigger fish.
“Unless they have a metal detector, nobody will know how much gold I will be carrying. And I could easily carry $100k while still looking like a common, unwashed peasant.” [beancounter13, post 50]
Quoting Star Wars film dialog cannot necessarily be distilled into sensible advice.
Bartering of precious metals for food & goods depends completely on the pre-existence of a stable social order. We dare not assume that will prevail in potential conditions of instability & fragmentation.
An armed person can easily relieve someone who is unarmed of whatever they possess - $1.00 or $100,000.00, doesn’t matter.
An unarmed person attempting to disarm and rob an armed person faces a more difficult task.
Ammunition is indeed less portable than precious metals, but that only illustrates the truism that there are no perfect solutions, only compromises.
“Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don’t.” [origin unknown]
You're being obtuse now, because you're on uncertain ground.
There is always a bigger fish.
But it won't be you, will it?