Price of stuff doesn't go up. Value of money goes down. Few understand this.

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While the value of money decreases, exchange and interest rates increase. You get triple fucked.
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El Guirri 1 year ago
Seems to be a massive cognitive barrier. Fixed it for a friend in uk by looking up chart of home prices on historical chart but priced in gold. I tend to try using the 1oz=1 Taylor made suit pricing to explain. 2 interesting points here. First, I think the dramatic purchasing power drop past 2 years is changing this. Second, and I saw this yesterday when orange pilling someone, the older generations seem to get it faster. I was talking to her and all of a sudden mum interrupted and went on a great rant about loss of purchasing power, saving in gold and instantly caught on to benefits of bitcoin as a superior value storage method. Was insightful to watch. When orange pilling, tell them to bring their parents or grandparents!!
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BobDav 1 year ago
The value of money if worth less but it’s on the path to becoming worthless.
Yeah, people in Weimar Germany used to say that the "dollar went up again" until they eventually figured out what was going on. Many countries are going through the same as we speak. Hopefully this will be history's last iteration of this nightmare.
The amount of zaps don't go down. Value of bitcoin goes up. Few understand this. 😉
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Chuck C 1 year ago
Every increase in fiat monetary units makes the existing fiat monetary units “worthless.”
Value goes up and down, depending on market forces such as desirability and availability. Therefore prices will rise and fall in a bitcoin standard world. The information would be more useful too. It's very hard to calculate the amount of time required to earn a specific good when you measuring stick keeps being fucked with.
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Kelevra 1 year ago
Biden should sue the companies making the dollars go down......
Everyone who owns assets thinks they're getting richer when the reality is that the money is losing value. And then the government takes away a chunk of the "gains" if you ever sell, making you more poor.
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frphank 1 year ago
How come the dollar price of houses goes up much faster than the dollar price of bread? Are these different dollars?
By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft. - John Maynard Keynes
Few? ?m afraid that's an overly optimistic estimate. I would't go beyond 3%. Goal should be 10% to start changing something... In the mean time, we stay humble and stack sats! :-)