Instead of hoarding essential items whenever a crisis happens, people should develop a habit of amassing cold, hard cash.
Indeed, all working adults should have sufficient stockpiles of cash, not kept in stacks of notes together with the groceries in the bomb shelter, but in fixed deposit accounts with banks.
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