• QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
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      This, people still trying to feed their families with 7.25, not out of laziness or refusal to get “real job” but desperation

      “You’re paid what you’re worth!111!!11”

      Bitch if human beings were paid what they were worth, poverty would actually be a moral failing instead of a societial one.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        I hear about these cases of inflation, like the fact a pack of gum cost 15 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, or immediately after WWII the German…reichmarke or whatever they called it, was so worthless it took a wheelbarrow full to buy a loaf of bread.

        Where do I get a wheelbarrow full of uselessly inflated USD? It’s not actually inflation, is it?

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          You’re thinking of hyperinflation. If that happens in the US you can have your wheelbarrow of dollars. Inflation makes money worth less, hyperinflation makes money worthless.