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Let’s not act like the infusions were for no reason. Many people are willing to incur some inflation and inflation risk in a gamble to avert a near-certain societal level catastrophe.



and which people were those? rich people, that's who...

I agree that desperate times call for desperate measures, but there are fairer ways to fund this. Just inflating the money supply just hits asset-poor people hardest... this is the very definition of the Cantillon Effect...


Which of these fairer mechanisms were actually practically available to us on the time frame and scale that we needed them?


taxing big tech properly?




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