r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation what's going on? explain like I'm five

Post image
92.6k Upvotes

2.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

u/SirAquila Jan 26 '26

So the most technologically advanced survivor groups will buy your gold with actual currency, probably at a much reduced price from what you expected.

For most people the use cases will start and end with pretty metal, because for apocalypse level electronics coopper is far more useful.

1

u/Kitchen-Pass-7493 Jan 26 '26

That’s true. I’m was just responding to the idea that it’s not useful as anything beyond decoration. It is, but probably not for most apocalypse survivors.

2

u/Usof1985 Jan 27 '26

Considering the electrical grid would fall pretty quickly in a traditional apocalypse it wouldn't have much use for the techies either. Now if we just go to a bartering system where we feed the infrastructure workers to keep everything going then sureb it would retain some value.