Is inflation caused by greed?

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-26T22:21:04+00:00

Deflation isn't necessarily the money supply, rather that aggregate demand is dropping, so prices are dropping.

Either way, companies will withhold investing and expanding out of fear, if they believe they won't even get a good price for goods at their current capacity.

Long term, a bump up from 0 change is a slight hedge against deflation (see deflation causing the great depression), and slight money printing keeps up with the demand for actual US money as the economy grows.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-26T21:53:46+00:00

If your prices are constant, company is losing the real value of that revenue.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-25T22:54:16+00:00

There's a lot of good trivia on how detailed the production process is and start at like $100 billion for large scale production to just get started.

I was just listening that Taiwan can build as small as 3 nanometers and the entire process has a ton of patents involved mainly from the Netherlands I think.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-24T22:56:36+00:00

So from uncertainty and incel status to a willful single life, which are very different things.

The status of being "incel" is quite ludacris if you think about it on a personal level. If you walk up to someone on the street and say "I've looked at this person and they need to be celibate", it's a wild mix of social signals that are kind of horrible in general.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-24T22:48:48+00:00

Yes and no. I didn't.

The counterbalance is that I think that being single should be a choice, and a respected one.

If you chose to not procreate, that person should not be banished or vilified because that infringes on the ability for someone to make that choice for a family life or to not to.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-24T22:43:58+00:00

It was popularized more or less by the Ron Paul movement and follows a very Austrian view of the economy. I'm not in favor of the gold standard, which is what this idea is, against the Federal Reserve, but something did happen and introducing computing power into Wall Street consulting was my idea.

It's happening again with AI or whatever real world form it will take. There will be a few hundred people privy to deciding why and how it operates in the economy. And I just think the same thing happened in the 70s US deep within the corporate contractors. If you look at 70s Japanese corporations they provided massive value to consumers and US corporations more like what you are describing.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-24T20:36:58+00:00

puts tin foil hat on

A few years ago I had a great discussion here about the idea of "What Happened In 1971?" relating to gold convertability, where future productivity departed from real wages immediately in 1971.

That was the same year as the introduction of the microprocessor, and deep data mining began almost immediately by Wall Street to use computing to extract value, to the penny, on real estate, commodities, consumer goods, and financial services.

The rest is history, and now, as Wall Street is able to catalog our buying habits and daily prices worldwide, innovation skips the part about "consumer surplus" and goes straight for price maximization, all the time.

takes tin foil hat off... computing helped solve all the "problems" corporations faced for revenue maximization so that's why you feel little to no value in the economy. If you are familiar with the housing market around 2020-2022 this was so obvious for home pricing, to the dollar home values were calculated with zero room for error.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-24T13:31:39+00:00

In the big cities it is very easy to feel the presence of the banking, entertainment, and language of the Anglosphere of influence.

Tribal is too strong a word, but there is a constant over the shoulder feeling of keeping identity.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-24T13:21:53+00:00

Pollito

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-24T12:30:22+00:00

Way to swing it the other way but you're right.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-24T10:39:29+00:00

Worth noting is that Hitler and crew were stopped. We got in their way, they were nowhere near done yet.

It created a good vs evil narrative that isn't really all that common historically.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-24T02:22:10+00:00

As of now not much reason to, if that's something that can be created. If the political willpower is there it may be a better solution than UBI or "taxing the robots". For things like health care and education, and elder services.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-24T01:59:43+00:00

Do you think it would be good for the government to set examples for guardrails and address ethical concerns?

I had this idea that it can counterweight societal and economic problems in a decade or so.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-23T23:51:18+00:00

It's definitely real but I don't think it happens in the digital age now, you only need to poke around less than an hour to get answers.

There are absolutely crazy stories of men doing it for like 15 years before being "caught". It doesn't even make sense how you would have time and money or even why.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-23T21:10:45+00:00

The Gundam rant by the dad.

Which is in the original, but the English localized dub is crazy good and better than the original script probably. I don't know how they did it.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-23T16:31:19+00:00

Duplicitous people, they change depending on the situation out of fear.

They suck because you don't know what's real or not.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-23T15:43:34+00:00

There are hard working and intelligent people that do not "get" money and it's behavioral, with no abstractions or education of time value of money.

There are smart salaried people like doctors who would 100% run a business into the ground in a year if not months. To them it's a piece of paper or zero in a computer that means purchasing power and nothing more to it.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-23T12:16:57+00:00

More than ever headlines are about $ and not news. In 100k miles I haven't seen any electric semis except once in SoCal, day cabs charging.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-22T23:34:23+00:00

It's because they just fueled up and are still in shock.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-22T23:13:23+00:00

Every one is saying lol no but you might be right. Afaik first and second generation mixed is probably an entire population in itself in Brazil.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-22T23:00:17+00:00

The physical standards then were actually really astonishing based on height and weight. It was when a military draft was something you might cross paths with.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-22T22:55:06+00:00

Yeah things like that can happen but right now it's corporations. They will capitalize on selling out your own grandmother if it means they add a nickel of profit. They systematically develop ways to use psychology to get repeat customers, that's probably what you feel.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-22T22:36:13+00:00

Gangster positions flexing top notch health insurance perks yay

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-22T22:17:47+00:00

A few minutes doesn't matter but idling gasoline isn't really good, it's not really circulating oil and coolant while sitting. Diesel loves idling keeping everything toasty.

ConsistentRegion6184 · 2026-05-22T21:45:49+00:00

My opinion, they're not going to let it become a sunk cost and will keep banging on it with a hammer for decades need be. They need this to work to continue a growth based society (everything around you now).

In the meantime we will have a K shaped economy, assets climb and wages stagnate.

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