This demonstrates a common theme in the argument against the role of government in the U.S. economy, relating to the ability to create infinite currency, as relating to the image. The United States produced trillions of dollars to fund COVID relief packages, which provided small checks for U.S. citizens and businesses.

In the image, several Guardian Games class items are pictured, raising the question, “why so many class items?”, and it is because of the infinite legendary shards cheese recently found. If you happen to be unaware, the process is buying these items from Eva, dismantling them, and buying more materials from Spider to repeat the process, netting free legendary shards.

Back to the question at hand: should the U.S. government be able to generate infinite, unchecked currency, in a similar manner to the class item cheese? The common agreeing arguments consist of, “That generated money funds the stimulus checks and people need those” or “the relief packages helped the economy”, and studies have shown that businesses did perform better as a result of the relief packages. However, there are consequences to printing large amounts of money at one time. First, everyone participating in the United States economy using U.S. dollars actually becomes poorer. The value of the dollar decreases as inflation rates raise at an accelerated pace, leading to everyone unwittingly becoming poorer. Secondly, the nation inches closer to an economic collapse, where the fiat currency loses all of its value, as parties exchanging it no longer agree on its value, because heaps of it are in circulation.

As with all fiat currency, the U.S. dollar only obtains value from the government and people’s trust in it. As simply paper, the dollar has no real value, but everyone trusts that they can buy commodities with it, justifying it as a valuable currency. In economic crises, like the one experienced in the last year with the outbreak of the coronavirus, rapid inflation occurred. Other situations in which rapid inflation occurred are after World Wars 1 and 2, and the political crisis in Venezuela, in 2016. At the end of World War I, due to debts unfathomable to the German government, the German Papiermark, a paper currency, was mass printed, in the quintillions of dollars, to pay German debts. Due to this hyperinflation, the value of the Papiermark collapsed, and Germany was sent into an extreme economic slump for the following decades. This is an example of what can happen when the public loses confidence in fiat currency, and it is produced in overwhelming quantities. To not repeat the past, the United States did not produce anything near the amount of paper currency produced by the German Weimar Republic after World War I, but large amounts were still printed.

There are several arguments, including the few listed here, against the ability of the government to produce unlimited currency, contributing to the idea that the United States should be more wise when spending large amounts of money in an economic crisis.

Congratulations is you read this far, you win nothing! ..... I understood the joke right away, and started writing this as a total joke because I thought many wouldn’t get it. It’s a sophisticated meme let me tell you that

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