• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Because our monetary supply is controlled by an entity that can print new money but doesn’t have any good way to take money out of circulation.

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      1 year ago

      Consider a series of transactions for a certain amount of money. Each transaction has a tax cost, that reduces that “certain amount” of money. On average, six transactions return all of that “certain amount” of money back to the treasury/ per Krugman.