Here’s a course of study that I for one, am about to undertake: the many youtube videos showing how Argentina, over a decade ago, survived a very similar economic collapse to the one slowly unfolding now, both here, and across the globe. According to the video below, one of their creative solutions, barter, even though untaxable, was encouraged by the Argentinian government, since it “served as a safety valve for social discontent boiling up from mass unemployment.” Thanks to nextworld.tv.

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