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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Maxfli, post: 2147147, member: 69089&quot;]Cashless society and prepping for Armageddon are two different issues, but since the conversation veered there, I&#039;ll add this...</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a terrific book called &quot;One Second After&quot; by William Forstchen that looks at life in the near-term aftermath of an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) attack on the U.S.</p><p><br /></p><p>In theory an EMP attack would render all modern electronics (and machines that rely on them) useless.&nbsp; So, no communications, no media, no trucks, trains or aircraft to deliver basic human necessities, etc. It&#039;s not a tin foil hat thing...a genuine threat (again, theoretically) that&#039;s been studied at length by Congress and the Defense Dept.</p><p><br /></p><p>No doubt the author had an agenda, but if so, he does an excellent job of hiding it.&nbsp; He takes a dispassionate, non-politicized look at how immediate and sweeping the impact would be on everyday existence, and identifies many ramifications one might not automatically anticipate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most interestingly to me, his Armageddon isn&#039;t what we normally envision thanks to the movies.&nbsp; There&#039;s no mass destruction, no clouds of deadly radiation.&nbsp; Everyone is alive and everything remains intact — except for a modern <u>functioning</u> society.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, to bring this back to the subject of money, in the author&#039;s post-EMP world, the currencies of the day quickly become bullets, medicines (to your point about pharmacies, Kurt), and of course, food and water.&nbsp; Money as we know it, in any form, is useless.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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