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Thinking about this recently (again), I am forming the notion that inflation is caused by people wanting to “make” money without doing anything. Honestly, who doesn’t want that if you can get it? Speculation, playing the stock markets, windfalls, inheritance, lottery tickets, getting a higher price due to increased demand… if some extra cash floats along, I”ll take it.
But it all contributes to inflation, right? Inflation is like the truly uncaring animal we call Capitalism balancing the books inexorably (though a buttload of externalized costs still keep accruing, awaiting the day they demand payment - in case I’m being too vague, I’m referring to things like climate change and human overpopulation).
What to do about it? Probably ride the nasty but exciting waves until we crash on the rocks.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
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