If things go into a barter type situation crypto could be used to fill the gap between buyer and seller better than perishable commodity items like cigarettes and cans of dog food I suppose

You telling me I've been stockpiling all of this dog food for nothing? Damn 😕

Our social and economic systems need a reboot and what comes out of it is going to be interesting imho.

Indeed it is, I'm really excited to see what we humans come up with next, we've had a deflationary system, an inflationary system, now we are moving into a free decentralized economic system and decentralized information is free to access for everyone, where money moves around much more... AI is going to be added to the mix and, hopefully, it won't nuke our asses but will actually help us manage large scale economy and distribution of products

If you haven't this is one of the best videos i've seen lately, it's about the zero marginal cost society that some people think we will evolve into:

I really enjoyed watching it, and it's one of the possible futures I have in mind.