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58434636 No.58434636 [Reply] [Original]

People actually accept inflation as a part of life.

>> No.58434644

>>58434636
People are cattle and if no one stands up for them or keeps them in order, they’d cannibalize each other like in the Hobbesian hell of Haiti.

If you can’t get rich and high status, you’re cattle too.

>> No.58434665

>>58434636
You need inflation to run a society

>> No.58434699

>>58434665
You do not.

>> No.58434703

You either experience inflation and accept it, or experience inflation while denying it. The outcome is still the same and there's nothing you can do about it.

>> No.58434716

>>58434699
If people think their money will have greater value in the future they will not spend it. This will collapse our economy.

>> No.58434741

>>58434644
This is the exact story which they tell both themselves and you, and by which they justify immoral actions. In reality, it's all selfish intent, greed, insecurity. Not that those should be avoided for any reason whatsoever, they will simply carry the consequences just as everything else does.

>> No.58434753

>>58434716
The same value. For most of history this was the case.

>> No.58434756

>>58434741
>Not that those should be avoided for any reason whatsoever
They should obviously be avoided.

>> No.58434774

>>58434716
Forced non-productive economic activity is definitionally parasitic, statist slavemind

>> No.58434776
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58434776

>>58434716
>if there was no inflation people suddenly wouldn't need food, healthcare, clothes, housing, etc, or want to consoom or be entertained
also
>conflating a lack of inflation with deflation