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Jeff Booth · 175w
Prices should fall as a result of the gains in productivity. They are only rising as a result of manipulation of money which is not the free market or capitalism. You’re measuring from within that s...
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Jeff, while I agree with you, I get Stu’s argument from my friends all the time. How would an economy thrive with a deflationary currency? Their argument is that the economy would contract because everyone would hoard Bitcoins and stop spending. They would all just hoard bitcoins and not buy anything today because they would expect the prices to be lower tomorrow! And why would anyone invest in new businesses if the return on their investments only go down along with their products’ marginal costs? Being in the current system, I don’t have any convincing arguments against that!
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Jeff Booth · 175w
Their argument presumes that you people only purchase things because their money is losing value. It is false. And It borders on insanity people believe it WHILE at the same time using a phone that gets better every year, busing a computer or TV, eating food, etc.
Sam Paradis · 175w
I see one problem in this argument. In a consumption based society where almost nobody knows how to survive on their own means, how do you want people to only hoard their bitcoin? They don’t have the choice to spend some only to survive. Now they need entertainment. They don’t have the choice...
⚡️🌱🌙 · 175w
… because sooner or later those people hoarding are dead. Use it or lose it, you ain’t taking it with you.