Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed...
by tasuki on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:43PM
(#42935864)
Are you saying low consumption is bad and high consumption is good?
High consumption has been improving the economy, and destroying the earth. I'm not saying I have the answers, but it's not so simple.
Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed...
by llamaimperative on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:44PM
(#42936764)
No, I'm saying that consumption at subsistence levels and investment opportunities having to overcome a deflation hurdle is bad.
It is very good that the default thing to do with excess money is invest it.
Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed...
by pshan on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:00PM
(#42938589)
I'm not trying to strawman the opposing side, but I always found it ironic that many of the cryptocurrency proponents I talk to think that starting a business is amazing and innovation is important, but also hate inflation, which encourages those two things.
Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed...
by llamaimperative on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:40PM
(#42939222)
They'd have to think at least one or two steps further than chart-go-up.
This is bad.
> Yet it results in more spending but on what?
Well near target inflation rates (which is a positive non-zero number) it results in a mix between consumption and investment.
This is good.