Lets say, in the near future, a BigMaccer cost $20. Is it the $20 that is important, or the BigMaccer that is important?
We have been living in a world where the dollar is universally accepted, and so, it seemed normal, prudent, to save in dollars, and not BigMaccers. "You can use the dollars any way you wish, you could get a FilletOFishy instead. And a BigMaccer would rot, (there is debate over this assumed fact) so it is best to keep your dollars until you need the BigMaccer."
Of course, all of that is true… until it isn't.
Dollar goes DOWN, or BigMaccer goes UP.
You know that every day you need a BigMaccer to fill your belly. To keep you from starving. This is not negotiable. (please belly, stop rumbling. Please energy levels, stop dropping. Yep, not happening) When you are lacking BigMaccers, you will trade anything you have for a BigMaccer. So, we are already seeing holes in the above logic. It only holds if there are more than enough BigMaccers. It only holds if the value of the dollar, in BigMaccers is staying relatively stable.
And, neither of these are holding true today.
If the economy is not stable
In the near future, the price of meat will be determined at the registers, because the price is changing so fast, that labeling the package will result in LOST revenue.
The dollar is crashing. Shipments from China could stop at any moment. Farmers are being attacked by bureaucrats. The economy is not stable. A falling house of cards is more apropos.
However, your tummy has a very timely need. You can almost set your clock to it. It needs enough food to live on, every day, despite what the economy is doing.
So, when the economy is not stable, food becomes a lot more valuable.
People in Cuba were giving up gold coins for a lousy meal while their economy broke down.
What will do when a days pay buys you one loaf of bread?
If the food supply is not stable
Nothing makes people more anxious than not know if their next meal is coming.
If the television was being honest, most of the news hour would be how the food growing and distribution is falling apart. How we are heading into a serious food shortage.
If you didn't know, the reason why ship things all over on ships is because The US protects the shipping lanes. And The US is being bombarded from all sides by countries that are tired of The US hegemony.
We have just entered the cold part of the ice-age. Winters are going to be becoming longer and colder. Summers are going to be short and brutal. This means that we will be seeing a lot of crop failures.
When we tip past the point where we go from enough food, to not quite enough food, the monetary system stops working.
Food is now important! money becomes more and more irrelevant.
Illusion meets reality
The banks, along with the bankster's illusion, are going to turn to dust. The banksters have always taken the farm away from the farmers when they experience a bad year. Now, the farmers are going to get even. Well, not really, it is just going to be shown how illusory what the banks offered is/was. And the banks, and their currency that doesn't really exist, goes poof.
What will become evident to many is that you need to grow your own food, or make damn sure, the people you are relying on growing the food for you, has your best interests at heart.
It will be shoved to the forefront of everyone's mind that food is not really in the category of something that can be bought. That food should be a separate category. When there is too much food, the excess is worthless. When there is too little food, food is the most valuable thing on the planet.
Many people will grow food just because they find they cannot trust anyone else.
The illusion of wealth, is really an illusion when you can't get food.
So much of the financial world of today is just going to vanish. Derivatives will go poof, and will probably never be allowed to exist (as long as we remember the past) Things will not be allowed to become too obfuscated from actual wealth, like food, water, a garden…
So, bitcoin may take over as the world's reserve currency. But it may also be decoupled from food. As in, bitcoin will not buy food, (unless you actually have an agreement with a grower) but food may buy bitcoin.
And so it will go down the line. Actual needs will be treated differently than something that can be just traded willy-nilly. Needs are too important to play banksters' games with.
Imagine a world where bitcoin is important, valuable, but it doesn't buy food or land.