Well inflation generally is just people with money and people with power agreeing to lie to each other, so the whole thing can continue working for them.
imagine this: you own a company, your company made raw profit of 300’000 last year.
This year it made 3% more raw profit. where did that come from? Growth! or inflation? both? (the real answer is your company made 30% more, because you’ve fired all the good, expensive workers and in three years the whole thing goes bust)
It gets created when money travels hands, but someone says: I give you 100’000$ value(chicken eggs par example), you give me 100’000$ chash/numbers, but in reality most people only ever receive 99’800 (chicken eggs) -> a devaluation.
The money supply only ever grows because banks can just loan more money than thry have, but then it all gets paid back and suddenly there is more money in the system.
Combining the two (devaluation in transaction and Oversupply) equals a general trend of having more and more money (cash/numbers) while having proportionally less worth. (even though there may have been true growth, the amount of moneys ahs grown stronger/faster.)
The opposite would be you’re paying 1’000’000 and receiving a higher worth, in the end the system loses money proportional to the worth. Deflation happens.
In my mind Inflation is good when it makes products cheaper because people hate having to pay “more” for the “same”. and when it sucks the money out of the pockets of people sitting on it. (*it can also help normal people in debt, because dept usually only grows slightly, while the people increase their income and money)
However most people with money also invest it in ways where they arent just sitting on it. and most normal people dont actually have a job whit money pegged to inflation, so they just get arsed with minimum pay from the early 1990’s.
“Japan’s economy has been fucked for decades by low growth because of deflation.”
I disagree, it has been a very differemt system compared to the US, but it also has a significalty different culture for example. Japanes people are quite wealthy, they have healthcare, they can eat sushi daily, they grow older than americans, are less fat than them. The japanese, in the biggest city in the world, have nowwhere near the homeless problems that plague the US. They jsut havent focused on “growth at any cost”.
an example for the systematic difference: The media cannot(is not allowed to) critisize the government in Japan. The US media isn’t doing much else except critisizing. Another Ex. may be the horrendous social problems they have, but they are mainly grounded in their fucked up culture, not their economy.
Nothing that person said made sense. Inflation isn’t good for wealthy people, it’s good for debtors.
Wealthy people hate inflation because they have lots of money and it makes their money worth less. That’s the simple explanation. In reality, they have their money mostly in bonds and stocks. But bonds are paid off in inflated currency which is worth less. So they are affected negatively by inflation.
Basically if you are a net debtor (student loans, home loans, etc.) inflation helps you as long as your income rises too. If you are a net lender (retired, wealthy, own your home with no mortgage) inflation does not help / may hurt you.
It looks like fancy dining, because that’s how they do fast food. Take a look at a Mr. Donut. I’m not sure if any even exist in the US anymore, but compared to your local Dunkin Donuts, a Mr. Donut in Japan looks like fine dining. They serve you the donuts and tea/coffee on fine china. The place is immaculately clean. That’s just fast food in Japan. There are some extremely expensive fine dining sushi restaurants, but those aren’t the norm. Sushi is generally fast food across the lake.
Well inflation generally is just people with money and people with power agreeing to lie to each other, so the whole thing can continue working for them.
imagine this: you own a company, your company made raw profit of 300’000 last year. This year it made 3% more raw profit. where did that come from? Growth! or inflation? both? (the real answer is your company made 30% more, because you’ve fired all the good, expensive workers and in three years the whole thing goes bust)
It gets created when money travels hands, but someone says: I give you 100’000$ value(chicken eggs par example), you give me 100’000$ chash/numbers, but in reality most people only ever receive 99’800 (chicken eggs) -> a devaluation.
The money supply only ever grows because banks can just loan more money than thry have, but then it all gets paid back and suddenly there is more money in the system.
Combining the two (devaluation in transaction and Oversupply) equals a general trend of having more and more money (cash/numbers) while having proportionally less worth. (even though there may have been true growth, the amount of moneys ahs grown stronger/faster.)
The opposite would be you’re paying 1’000’000 and receiving a higher worth, in the end the system loses money proportional to the worth. Deflation happens.
In my mind Inflation is good when it makes products cheaper because people hate having to pay “more” for the “same”. and when it sucks the money out of the pockets of people sitting on it. (*it can also help normal people in debt, because dept usually only grows slightly, while the people increase their income and money)
However most people with money also invest it in ways where they arent just sitting on it. and most normal people dont actually have a job whit money pegged to inflation, so they just get arsed with minimum pay from the early 1990’s.
“Japan’s economy has been fucked for decades by low growth because of deflation.” I disagree, it has been a very differemt system compared to the US, but it also has a significalty different culture for example. Japanes people are quite wealthy, they have healthcare, they can eat sushi daily, they grow older than americans, are less fat than them. The japanese, in the biggest city in the world, have nowwhere near the homeless problems that plague the US. They jsut havent focused on “growth at any cost”.
an example for the systematic difference: The media cannot(is not allowed to) critisize the government in Japan. The US media isn’t doing much else except critisizing. Another Ex. may be the horrendous social problems they have, but they are mainly grounded in their fucked up culture, not their economy.
No one can eat sushi daily, that’s a myth, sushi is their version of fancy dining.
Nothing that person said made sense. Inflation isn’t good for wealthy people, it’s good for debtors.
Wealthy people hate inflation because they have lots of money and it makes their money worth less. That’s the simple explanation. In reality, they have their money mostly in bonds and stocks. But bonds are paid off in inflated currency which is worth less. So they are affected negatively by inflation.
Basically if you are a net debtor (student loans, home loans, etc.) inflation helps you as long as your income rises too. If you are a net lender (retired, wealthy, own your home with no mortgage) inflation does not help / may hurt you.
It looks like fancy dining, because that’s how they do fast food. Take a look at a Mr. Donut. I’m not sure if any even exist in the US anymore, but compared to your local Dunkin Donuts, a Mr. Donut in Japan looks like fine dining. They serve you the donuts and tea/coffee on fine china. The place is immaculately clean. That’s just fast food in Japan. There are some extremely expensive fine dining sushi restaurants, but those aren’t the norm. Sushi is generally fast food across the lake.