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• match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  a search for “inflation” on a furry website with thousands of results a search for deflation on a furry website with only 164 results

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Okay, done and concluded. Thank you.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For the longest time on 4chan’s literature board (which was a pretty useful and interesting place overall), there was a guy who would spam pictures and fan fiction of the girl from Willy Wonka getting turned into a blueberry.

    I have weird fetishes, so I don’t judge too much, but wtf.

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  • known_unknown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    you don’t see very clear QEDs on the internet very often but it’s always nice to see the reliance on data

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think you are required to make deflation porn a thing now. It’s like a rule.

    I’m imagining some dude getting sucked off so hard he turns into dust or a raisin.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The Great Depression.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Keynesians, the Chicago School of Business types, and Friedmans,

      one of these is not like the others

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  • WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think more weird that in this situation where the cost of goods is raising faster then even the ’ normal ‘ rate faster then wages… you 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.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The situations end up exactly the same. Either things cost more than you can afford, or your money ain’t worth shit to be able to afford anything. The only real difference is which number is fucked up: the price of the goods or the value of your money.

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      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sounds like an intrinsic flaw of monetary based economics then.

        Maybe we should do something about it? It isn’t like alternatives don’t exist.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What if we valued labor over ownership of stuff?

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If deflation was persistent, couldn’t debt have a very low or even negative interest rate?

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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      • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah I don’t really understand that part either, but it has happened

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  • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The issue is that they even get loans when they have no real collateral to give.

      Most people also have savings or a pension fund which is indirectly put into the stock market, that’s how you get interest etc.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Am explanation repeating the same wrong ideas isn’t a proof

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How are you measuring the concentration of economic power - Gini coefficient?

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