• SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    Crypto is literally just machines wasting energy on purpose to create false scarcity

    A monetary system that is designed to lead to eternal, cancerous growth through intentionally inflating the money supply is far worse.

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      6 months ago

      I’d love to see any evidence or logical arguments that an inflationary economy is worse than a deflationary one.

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        6 months ago

        I’d love to see any evidence or logical arguments that an inflationary economy is worse than a deflationary one.

        Don’t you understand that artificially induced unlimited growth is bad? It’s not about inflation or deflation, but the outcome.

        https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/strategy/pricestab/html/index.en.html

        The main task of the ECB is to maintain price stability. The ECB’s Governing Council considers that price stability is best maintained by aiming for 2% over the medium term. Price stability creates conditions for more stable economic growth

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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.