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Re:Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates? on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:08PM (#22740500)
>You need to let go of the idea that it is immoral.

>Buy a house and when you can buy a bigger house. Put your money in the growth part of the stock market (technology ... big names like Apple and Amazon is good).

Your advice is sound, but I still argue that the system is extremely immoral. Consider what this mindset has done to the environment. The reality of Keynesianism is that by allowing the government to manipulate the market via inflation, we have encouraged a massive over-consumption of resources. People who would have otherwise saved their money and been satisfied with their current rate consumption are essentially threatened into spending their money faster. But hey, the system's worked for 87 years and only created the least equitable distribution of wealth ever seen on Earth, so I'm sure it will work for the next 87.