• WldFyre@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I mean, I don’t disagree with you on that. I didn’t think your first comment quite conveyed this nuance, and deflationary economies are terrible for everyone.

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      6 months ago

      deflationary economies are terrible for everyone

      That’s a myth spread by modern monetary theorists because they only understand the economy from an inflationary perspective. Economies worked fine for millennia without inflationary money.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t think local economies from millennia ago are similar enough to compare to modern global economies with our current population boom. I think we could for sure have a different approach if our population was stable or decreasing.

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          6 months ago

          worked fine for millennia without inflationary money

          That means until the early 1900s or 1970s when inflation went into overdrive.

          our current population boom

          Huh what?

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            6 months ago

            That means until the early 1900s or 1970s

            What a wide window, but I’d like to point out that the baby boomers generation happened right around this time.

            Huh what?

            Fertility rates and total population numbers are not the same thing.