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matata | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 im not crazy goddanged

what's your definition of inflation?
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imnuso | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Increase of actual supply.
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matata | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 oke.. i see your point now i think
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 supply of money or non-monetary resources is kinda important in the definition

otherwise it would be more correctly be called a "glut" or "bumper crop" or several other market segment specific terms for a decline in scarcity
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imnuso | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The problem with the terms inflation and deflation is that they just indicate change of quantity (of monetary supply) but people interpret them as change in value, because after an complex interplay of different factors took place that’s the effect. However it remains just a change of quantities.
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 most people can't even compute second order consequences... the education system and media has made them this way
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imnuso | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The world has become too abstract and complex for most of the IQ levels present in societies. It will get worse before it gets better
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 it harms me, in short term, materialistic ways to obey my intellect but when the herd is headed for the slaughterhouse the value of it becomes clear
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imnuso | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Dare to think dangerously. That is, it seems, thinking in the first place nowadays.