Okay you got my attention! You have any articles you can point me to to read about this it sounds fascinating!
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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31 sats \ 3 replies \ @Zed 16 Apr
I’m at work give me some time and I’ll look one up to post.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 16 Apr
appreciate it!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Zed 16 Apr
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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