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Re:Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009) by imtringued on Sunday August 01, 2021 @03:51PM (#28029280)
> It doesn't have to be that way, but basically there has been annual share dilution from the US currency corporation for 100 years, it was chartered by Congress in 1913.

Sure, you can build a money system without inflation but that doesn't change that you still have to represent the loss of value via unemployment caused by saving money. i.e. you will need money with an expiration date, negative interest rate or wealth tax.

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Re:Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009) by vmception on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:18PM (#28031180)
I don't have a problem with the current reality. I am only pointing out that the current reality isn't fundamentally an absolute reality, just the features of the current epoch of currency which is only 100 years old. This thread was only about why the prices for a long time in the 19th century were not changing much across those 100 years, when in the 20th century things increase. I'm not here to opine about a future alternate system.
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