this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

“In this case, checks from the government fueled more inflation than they did wealth building,” he said.

Fuck off. I hate these people, all of them should be thrown into a woodchipper. Monetarist nonsense.

What an annoying fucking article. Really shows the bourgeois disdain for the poor, that even the thought of a tiny crumb of basic income is shut down with the excuse of "inflation".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

these newborns should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps. have they thought about not drinking milk every day??? what about just taking a small loan of a million dollars and investing it. finding a job? have they thought about that??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You can't save if your currency is constantly losing value. Putting money in a savings account is just slowly moving value from you to whoever controls the money printer and expands the supply.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My parents lost all their savings due to hyperinflation. I can't imagine how crushing this could be to a parent. All your life you have saved some money, putting them every month to a savings account in a bank, just to wake up one day and realise that they have disappeared.

Back then I didn't realise how bad it is, but now as an adult, I can only imagine how they felt back then. Life sucks and fucks you up a lot.