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0 pointsrmah4y ago0 comments

Having money worth more tomorrow than today is how you get a stagnant economy and misery for everyone but the very rich. It's how you depress consumption and investment. It's how you destroy a nation.

Money is not wealth. Money is a tool. The goal, at a macro level, is not to have people having big piles of money. Because money, in and of itself, is not that important. What matters is how the money is used. And the more it's used, the better. Money being used is consumption and investment.

What you call "a better system of stock trading" is called a "bond". It's debt and works similarly to how you described except the reward % is typically fixed.

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StandardFuture4y ago

> Money is not wealth. Money is a tool.

Can you please stop making up your own economics? A currency is an asset. End. Of. Story.

Deflation is a directional property of an exchange rate between a pair of assets.

By "used" you mean traded. And yes trade increasing (of which consumer spending is a kind of trading) is a good thing. You only get that with volatility. This can be created through an inflation but dually it is also created through deflation.

There is nothing wrong or immoral about a particular asset going up or down in price relative to another asset.

This unscientific stance of considering all deflation as immoral is based on absolutely nothing except emotional propaganda.

You have provided exactly zero proofs verifying that any and all deflation in a currency is a bad thing. And you will never be able to provide such a "proof" because it does not exist.

Let's see if you are even capable of constructing a proper intellectual retort. My doubts run high.

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