Fucking classic, when the crisis hits, the money inside the bank is at great risk, they will do whatever they want with it.
Keeping the money in the bank is risky because the gov will steal you, but keeping it in your home is risky because thiefs can raid your house or because the inflation will eat you up slowly, or not so slowly, here we have 25% inflation.
The world sucks, basically if you were born in the working class, you'll be a fucking slave of the banks and the government.
Get a fire proof safe and put some effort into hiding it and make it as hard as possible for thiefs to find and if they do find as hard as possible to break into it or steal it.
Thats my plan when I start getting a decent amount of silver but right now my 2 coffee cans of nickels and pre 1964 silver coinage arent in much danger.
Yeah I have a safe, the problem with that is that thiefs like to take hostage a weak member of your family and torture it until you decide to give them money, they specially love to do that to old retired families, you need to keep that in mind when placing the safe.
This happened in the small city I live, and happens too often.
The problem with gold/silver is that isn't readily available money to use and normal stores and everyone won't accept it.
You'll need to pay extra to get a certified metal and you'll need to pay commissions to sell it, and when you have a heavily devaluated money precious metals are extremely fucking expensive, you can't trade daily use items with it.
Also you can have government restrictions to buy it, like in my fucking country.
You'll find this funny, but in Argentina people saves in US dollars since decades, now there are restrictions to buy dollars and its price its trough the roof.
While the current system keeps working we will have to deal with banks.
I think the key is to know the things than can go wrong like the ones I listed before, and diversify how you save and where you store your savings.
And never forget that you can't escape inflation, you can only lose slower.
