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Re:Financial anxiety: The alarming side effect of inflation by amjnsx on Monday October 09, 2023 @11:14AM (#37821292)
It’s a tale as old as time unfortunately. Currencies have been debased for centuries.

It won’t change until we have actual hard money that can’t be debased by leaders/bankers/politicians.

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Re:Financial anxiety: The alarming side effect of inflation by diogenes4 on Monday October 09, 2023 @01:15PM (#37822702)
Sorry, is there any reason to expect money to revert to behaving like gold any time soon? Sounds suspiciously like crypto tripe. Why would that be beneficial anyway? The relative purchasing power of poor countries won't change without some serious shifting in resource distribution worldwide.
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Re:Financial anxiety: The alarming side effect of inflation by latchkey on Monday October 09, 2023 @03:18PM (#37824177)
I saved this comment a while ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26238410
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Re:Financial anxiety: The alarming side effect of inflation by rando_dfad on Monday October 09, 2023 @01:27PM (#37822875)
Hard as gold, perhaps?

That creates other issues. Volatility, for one.

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Re:Financial anxiety: The alarming side effect of inflation by ImHereToVote on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @03:44AM (#37829502)
Gold creates hoarding behavior. Bitcoin has the same down side. Currencies need to have fluidity. The problem is how the fluidity happens. It can't be controlled by private interests. This is an unsolved monetary problem. I don't think it's unsolvable though.
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