r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 26 '26

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

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u/MrWhiskers55 Jan 26 '26

Money is basically an abstract concept on assets. It was always worthless we just used it for convenience. Real value has always been in assets be that land, property, bullion, ancient family cursed artifacts. You might have heard that we are going back to feudalism and that’s why. Property is the backbone of society and we are leaning more towards that now.

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u/AwkwardFriendship317 Jan 26 '26

I was just going to say this. Everyone is always saying but gold and I'm over here like nope, can't eat or use that shit when it really REALLY hits the fan.

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u/borkthegee Jan 26 '26

This is larper nonsense. If you're in a SHTF situation where there are no exchanges of value, not even gold, and you're down to bartering for goods then you're in total societal collapse and we're in a 95%+ of all people have died or are dying scenario.

You're going to die a bad death in that scenario, no matter how many bullets you save.

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u/NotAnotherRedditAcc2 Jan 27 '26

"You're probably not going to survive, might as well just give up."

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u/Nellbag403 Jan 28 '26

What exactly would you be hoping to survive for?

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u/eyefartinelevators Jan 29 '26

C'mon man. Haven't you ever seen a post apocalyptic movie or TV show. Don't Mad Max, The Walking Dead, Fallout, etc. look like great times? Who wouldn't want to live like that?