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Re:Why the 2% Inflation Target? (2023) by qwytw on Saturday March 23, 2024 @03:48AM (#39798219)
> How do you incentivize this? Your view seems fairly communist. Also how does a net new innovation factor into this framework. New pharmaceuticals for previously untreatable diseases for example. What slice of the fixed money pie do those get?

To be fair that did mostly work in the 1800s. The gold standard probably did have a significant negative impact on growth but to be fair I can't really think of a different system that might have worked back then considering how thoroughly corrupt and unstable pretty much all governments were back then.

Re:Why the 2% Inflation Target? (2023) by chowchowchow on Saturday March 23, 2024 @10:47AM (#39800330)
The 1800s USA also saw the gold rush and the comstock lode. So it seems even then many were incentivized into activities which created more money.