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Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by edanm on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:27AM (#22602574)
That's not the point of inflation, and I don't think that article backs what you're saying up.
Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by dnautics on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:21PM (#22606522)
It absolutely does. Krugman comes out and says that it's a way to use policy to cut the wages of the working class. Read it carefully.
Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by clairity on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:25PM (#22607413)
inflation is used to keep the "time value of money" working so that capital is incentivized to be reinvested, lest it lose all its value over time. this impetus leads capital to relentlessly seek returns, which over time compresses returns to labor in favor of capital.

so suppressing labor is certainly a consequence of our positive inflation policy. the intention can be debated, but note that various govermental units tolerated prejudiced efforts like mccarthyism and redlining too.

Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by dnautics on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:49PM (#22607781)
I think the intent is to 'keep employment numbers up at any cost'. But that there is a (predictable, and evidenced) unintended consequence to the prescribed method of attaining that objective is an indictment of the class-blindness of the liberal economic polity, and, secondarily, the brokenness of modern 'science' and 'scientistic' pursuits. (not saying the right is much better on that front)
Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by clairity on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:36PM (#22608448)
i'm sympathetic to the original indictment that capital holders (like many hbs grads) realized, and then moved to solidify, this tilting of the board in their favor by supporting inflationary policy.

i'm not sure that the liberal economic polity is a distinct class from those same capital holders (but i generally disfavor left-right political framing anyways).

Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by dnautics on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:39PM (#22609350)
Yeah sorry to make it seem too much like a left versus right issue, I hate both sides, I just specifically pointed out "left" because the left purports to care about the "little people" (see Krugman) while very much actively pursing policies that are great for capital holders and rhetorically espousing policies tantamount to throwing bones to everyone else.