• Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    Inflation does absolutely nothing to prevent rich people from hoarding money or forcing it to actually circulate, you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.

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      27 minutes ago

      Be billionaire

      Have all your money in your bank account

      Hyperinflation happens

      Everyone else is a billionaire too

      Your money isn’t worth anything.

      Regular inflation is this, but at a much slower pace. Still means if you’re rich, you HAVE to invest your money somewhere, or it loses all of its value over time. And all the investments that actually make a good amount of money over the long term involve lending your money to someone else to be able to do something productive so both parties can benefit.

      If you’re not rich, you just get raises and things get cheaper over time in comparison to the national average salary which rises faster than inflation or at least at the same rate. People today can afford more things than people 20 years ago. Unless you live in the US or some other similar shithole country. If you do, it’s not inflation that’s keeping you down, it’s the absolute lack of any kind of respect for the working class. Yes, in that environment, inflation is bad for workers. That’s why you need unions and strong labour laws.

      As long as there’s currency, you want inflation. You also want to not live in a country where workers don’t get raises that outpace inflation. That’s the thing you have an issue with, it’s completely separate from inflation.