• SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    If you believe that a savings account outpace inflation I don’t know how to help you. You’ve obviously never been poor, or very rich, if you swallow the official CPI numbers.

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      5 months ago

      If you believe that a savings account outpace inflation I don’t know how to help you.

      Mine does, at least, actual inflation.

      The fake inflation that is just corporate greed is something that can never be outpaced by anything, not even housing as an investment which just makes your point double moot.

      The solution is to put an end to the current economic system. It’s not serving me or you. It’s just stealing from us:

      https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

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        5 months ago

        The solution is to put an end to the current economic system. It’s not serving me or you. It’s just stealing from us:

        You almost get it, the system is stealing from you, but through monetary debasement. Corporate greed is actually mostly a side effect of monetary debasement, because people are forced to invest into companies to preserve their wealth, and the companies need to increase profits excessively to keep up with inflation, pay out dividends, and raise their stock price.

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          5 months ago

          the system is stealing from you, but through monetary debasement

          This is only one of the many ways in which the rich steal from us. Believe me, I fucking get that part.

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              5 months ago

              And why does monetary debasement happen? you use it like it’s just something some evil person did to harm you. when in reality it’s a necessity to counteract wealth hoarding.

              The Libertarian fever dream of a society without inflation, or straight up wealth taxation can only lead to the creating of a new aristocratic dictatorship, because eventually a small group of people would own everything, literally recreating feudalism.

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                5 months ago

                And why does monetary debasement happen? you use it like it’s just something some evil person did to harm you. when in reality it’s a necessity to counteract wealth hoarding.

                Ah, another rich, privileged asshole. Inflation hits poor people the hardest, they have nothing to invest, they have no surplus money to absorb increased cost, they have no bargaining power with their employer.

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                  5 months ago

                  they have no bargaining power with their employer.

                  now that is entirely your fault for not being part of a union, the magic thing that actually got the working man everything he has, literally. and no, inflation hits the wealthy the hardest because they have more actual savings, it affects you heavily because you are a good little drone and drank the liberal coolaid.

                  what is the alternative in a world where people can amass money without anything reducing the real value of said wealth? Entire cities owned by one person?