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But in a deflationary world you'd have to literally cut their wages every year, which will cause social unrest.
The main reason this would cause unrest is if people are using loans to fund their activities. This was a major reason why bimetallism gained traction in the late 19th century, because farmers needed to pay loans back but their goods that they were selling to the market kept getting cheaper due to deflation, making it harder and harder for them to pay the loans back. Solution here is that they need to be zero-interest loans (Saifedean has an interesting theory on why this would be the case in a hard money economy eventually) or fewer loans and much more savings. I personally think the latter is much more realistic given that in a deflationary economy, savings is deeply incentivized.
The solution to not cutting wages, though, is to increase productivity of each worker. This requires near-constant innovation, which most companies in a functioning economy do. Of course, this might mean not as many jobs, but then, those people are freed up to do other more productive activities. The main flaw here is assuming jobs are for life.
Regarding productive jobs, when will the conventional work week be under 40 hours? 4 day work week?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 13h
My cousin has a 24h workweek (in the EU) which was the most hours he could get! Insane.
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