Exiting Babylon

If you grew up in an urban or suburban area and didn't have a garden or farm animals, it's a life changing experience to start getting large quantities of food from your own land. We only have 4 ducks, but they lay more eggs than we can eat. Their food is pretty cheap, even though it's organic, and I heavily supplement their diet with organic treats--kale and peas. They also produce copious amounts of fertilizer from their coop and their pond. Really without much effort or investment in money, you end up "in the black" even in a beast system financial sense.

When you don't build the farm infrastructure with debt and don't buy the animals with credit, your dead money turns into a thing that's accruing actual value. If you're careful about how you make your farm work, its productivity grows exponentially. It's actual interest, not usury. You can preserve the productivity of the soil, and improve the productivity of the soil year over year.

It's actually fairly difficult and time intensive to convert the monopoly money to things that are in that category though. It'd be very easy to squander it. Many of the key farming tools, like a tractor, can be heinously expensive. If the farm grows inorganically and haphazardly, those assets won't be productive or useful.