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True, but the coming collapse isn't going to last a few months. We're staring down the barrel at a decade or more of horribly bad economic times that will likely make the Great Depression look like a walk in the park because the majority of our population now does not know how to be self sufficient. Back during the Great depression there were still a lot of small family farms. My mother and father were both young adults during the Depression. My father lived in Atlanta and he and his mother had a very rough go of it. My mother, OTOH, lived on a small farm. She told me once that they were so poor and so used to doing for themselves when the depression hit they hardly even noticed. Nowadays, we have a huge chunk of the population that has never tended a garden, never preserved their own food, doesn't know how to entertain themselves without TV or the internet. Those people are going to suffer big time. Then, there is the welfare brood mare dependent class. They'll be the ones responsible for the cities burning when the checks stop coming.

I agree it is dangerous advertising if you have excess supplies and in certain incidences in certain places it will be dangerous to leave home. Eventually, though, folks are going to have to start bartering because stuff is going to run out. I envision bartering more services for goods, as opposed to goods for services, anyway.

What I concluded was that, at first, you need to stay holed up until the “heard is thinned” and the gangs of roaming looters have been killed off or starve.
This is assuming you’re in a semi-rural area, etc.

You need provisions for that time, then after things settle down a bit and it’s not so dangerous, that’s when you start to trade and barter.

My mother, OTOH, lived on a small farm. She told me once that they were so poor and so used to doing for themselves when the depression hit they hardly even noticed.

I was a tramp printer back in the late '50s-60s and always made a point to ask the people in the various states I was in how it was for them during the Depression. Almost without variation, it was the same as you mom's, with some saying that while they didn't have any money, at least they had something to eat and a place to stay. On the other hand, those whose folks lived in the city lived in Hell.

I see the same cities burning scenario you do. I'm in a semi-rural area and keep a low profile along with my food and ammo stocks.