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Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap by tuatoru on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @09:27PM (#24218919)
You're conflating two things, currency exchange rate changes and inflation.

Inflation to a first approximation is wage rises. "Too much money chasing too few goods" is the traditional formulaion.

Western economies have split. For the majority wages are not rising. For the affluent minority incomes are rising sharply. So we see little inflation in the goods and services bought by poor people, but steep price rises in goods bought by rich people.

The latter are mainly collectibles: stocks and bonds, real estate, artworks, gold and jewels, cryptocurrencies, etc.

We won't see Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation unless there is massive redistribution.

Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap by m0zg on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:03AM (#24220658)
> Inflation to a first approximation is wage rises.

Wage rises are always sub-inflation during hyperinflation. Goods, by the way, and especially complex goods with long supply chains, will also become scarce in all this as inflation makes it difficult to maintain stock necessary to manufacture or distribute goods. That is, that widget you bought today might cost more than you're charging for it when you need to replenish the stock. So you raise the price accordingly, using your best guess as to how much money you will need to still turn at least some profit. And _everyone_ throughout the entire supply chain does the same thing.

You haven't lived through a hyperinflation and I have. So you'd be wise to listen right about now, and if you're wealthy, you'd be wise to also read up on hyperinflation.

It's not the kind of "managed" inflation you're used to. It is, by definition, out of control completely, and very hard to get out of.

Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap by JMTQp8lwXL on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @10:00PM (#24219122)
Would we consider tech workers affluent? Tech wages have been high for sometime, but I am not too privy to how much they're increasing, if they've plateaued (but are still high), etc.