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  • I appreciate your response but I think you are applying Economics 101 haha :P

    Monetarism hasn't held up historically and doesn't even take employment, growth, savings, price stickiness or export/import into account. Besides, we are talking about government spending, not private sector.

    More money in circulation means more taxes - the money gets taken back out. And taxes can always be increased when the economy gets a lil too hot (we are nowhere near that). The picture you are painting onoy holds up when we have full employment and all businesses are at capacity, which is not how things look in most economies right now. More money results in businesses getting more revenue, which they can invest and use to hire more workers. No inflation, just growth and more employment.

    The fact that buying power has decreased over the last decade is true but not because of inflation. It's because neoliberalism has allowed capital to claim all of economic growth for itself. Before neoliberalism, higher profits could be captured for workers by strong unions (broadly speaking)

    The kind of inflation that decreases purchasing power is a price shock, which has caused most of the inflation in the last few years. This has indeed impacted the poor most, but this kind of inflation also has nothing to do with an expanding monetary supply.

    I really recommend researching MMT or demand-side economics.

  • Not always, and no.

    New money is created all the time, and most of it not even by government spending, but through businesses taking loans.

    When governments spend too much in competitive markets, i.e. on resources that aren't there yet, then yes it drives up prices. Just running a deficit does increase the money supply, which still only causes inflation in some cases.

    The classic inflation from the economy working a little too well is not a flat tax, since both wages and prices are growing. Savings on the other hand (except stocks), lose their value. Classic inflation erodes the savings of the rich, and erodes the debts of the poor.

    And even then, the central bank can always increase the cost of businesses lending to slow things down. That has other downsides, but the point is:

    1. Government deficits don't always lead to inflation
    2. When they do, a bit of inflation is not a bad thing, since wages grow too

    But yes, tax the rich. Can't argue with that

  • governments with their own currencies don't require taxes to have/spend money btw

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  • I really appreciate the effort and the energy but uhh wtf buddy

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  • those last two panels really rounded off that joke like mustard on an apple pie

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  • Slang for cloaca. It's what all the kids are saying. The fish kids.

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    I have Niri + Noctalia on my laptop rn and it's nice for most tasks, but so limited. configuring external monitors doesn't work right. the steam flatpak doesn't even display a window. the builtin clipboard manager doesn't work. Non-linux people watch me use this and they decide that linux is unusable.

    I mean zero disrespect to any of the people building these fantastic tools but I keep crawling back to KDE Plasma. Am I doing something wrong hahah

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