Economy after a disaster.

How do you think the economy is going to go after a disaster? In an apocalyptic state, I'm sure people wouldn't be bothered to go to the ATM and pick some cash up.How do you think it will influence the way we live, after the disaster happens? Personally, I think that for the first days, not many people will be bothered, but as we rebuild our lifes, it will start to sink in.

 

I know,but someday we have to start an economy again. Don't you think? I mean, I'm thinking people will start trading goods for other goods... that's economy.

 

I think trading will become the ultimate form of currency. Nobody would care about money if the money was hyper-volatile, they'd just want certain essentials beyond all else. Being able to make pottery, for example, would be an easy way to trade for labor if somebody didn't know how to fire clay or make a quick little oven...cooking for that matter, etc. I can make a cob oven in a few hours of work (3~6+drying time), I could easily trade that service for all kinds of stuff.

 

One thing I have observed about economies after a disaster is that the process of picking up the pieces and rebuilding of the infrastructure creates alot of opportunities for all cadres of professionals ranging from engineers, plumbers and a wide array of entrepreneurs. Its not uncommon to find a war economy recording double digit growth.

 

I think people will come to realize sooner rather than later that they can do without money. Right now people work to earn money so they can buy food.

Post apocalypse people won't need the money to buy food. Everyone will have a farm. Food. They'll learn to enjoy life without all the extra things money could buy them.

 

As long as the ATMs are working, it's not been an apocalypse yet In the unlikely event of a global collapse of modernity, the begining period will have primitve economy, and scavenging (and, sadly, raiding) for supplies - chiefly food, but also stuff like medicine, fule, ammo - left from before the Event will make much of it. Any productive activity would be likely centered around immediate survival and even smaller communities would aim for a high degree of self-reliance. Once thing begin to settle down and regional trade networks are re-estabilished, the more developed economy will reappear, just that there certainly gonna be new currencies etc.

 

One thing I have observed about economies after a disaster is that the process of picking up the pieces and rebuilding of the infrastructure creates alot of opportunities for all cadres of professionals ranging from engineers, plumbers and a wide array of entrepreneurs. Its not uncommon to find a war economy recording double digit growth.