• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 days ago

    I’ve always been saying it. Fiat currency leaves the value of money in the hands of too few people. Whenever their buddies start crying for help, the money hose turns on and the rest of us suffer higher prices with no wage growth to balance it.

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      21 days ago

      This isn’t a currency issue. The processes driving this have been observed in 19-century Britain under a gold standard. For me it took looking into how firms decide what to produce, how to produce it and what to do with the profits in order to build a better picture on what’s happening. This Talk at Google was a good starting point for me.