• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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        Deflation increases the value of money vs. goods and services. As a consequence, deflation concentrates economic power in the hands of people who already have money.

        If you have debt, deflation increases the value of your debt making it harder to pay off.

          • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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            5 days ago

            Who would lend at a negative rate besides friends and family? Here’s a bar of gold, please give me back half a bar of gold in a year.

        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Inflation makes goods aka stocks increase value, which makes rich fucks that live on loans be able to then ask another loan for a bigger amount to pay off the loan from before just because their assets passively rose in value.

          It’s the scam by which the ultra rich live by doing absolutely nothing while the rest of us that are saving for a house or whatever see our savings year by year diminished.

          Yeah fuck that.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        Are you seriously asking for a list of every economic downturn in history?

        When prices drop, unemployment goes up, people can’t buy shit, rinse and repeat.

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          I think its more weird that in this situation where the cost of goods is raising faster then even the ’ normal ‘ rate faster then wages… you guys respond with it being preferable to the polar opposite…

          Sure you may be dying of thirst, but it’s better then drowning! Completely ignoring like reason and stuff.

        • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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          6 days ago

          We’ve had inflation as we know it since the 1970s and still had economic downturns since then. Were we simply not printing money hard enough?

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          Okay, show me this happening. Because literally every economic crisis I’ve had the privilege to live through, thanks the the Keynesians, the Chicago School of Business types, and Friedmans, has been associated with inflation.

          Show me. Prove it. These economists make claims and don’t have to back them up with empirical data or theories that predict future states of the world.

          I don’t make the assumption something is true because it sounds good and tells a good story. Prove it.