• WldFyre@lemm.ee
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    2 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.

    • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 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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        2 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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          2 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?