• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Inflation is a tax on hoarding money. In an ideal world, it will push rich people and companies to reinvest their wealth in the economy, instead of hoarding it. Unfortunately, in the real world it doesn’t work on the very rich, so it only affects the upper middle class and the moderately rich.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah it only works on the money. Holding income-generating assets isn’t affected because people can increase rents to maintain the same income stream.