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61 sats \ 8 replies \ @Zed 16 Apr 2024 \ on: Stacker Saloon
I am fascinated by the idea that a disinflationary monetary system could help prevent mass war.
https://m.stacker.news/26889
Okay you got my attention! You have any articles you can point me to to read about this it sounds fascinating!
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It's the flip side of noting that governments rely on inflation to fund their wars. Before fiat money, wars were much smaller scale.
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I’m at work give me some time and I’ll look one up to post.
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appreciate it!
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At lunch, couldn’t really find a good one. The breakdown is this: If you can print your own money then you have an unlimited supply to go to war with. Bitcoin standard would force their hand. With a finite supply everyone would be less wasteful.
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Ah! Yeah that would make a lot of sense and def would but an enormous and quick halt to all the extra spending!
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... until you understand that are 2 of the many instruments of the same machine
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Can you expand on what you are saying? Not sure I grasp what you mean.
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