Not strictly. If more money is saved, that does reduce economic activity, but then it’s the governments responsibility to create more money. It makes no sense to blame the actions of individuals for systemic failure, especially when there is an entire class of people whose job it is to keep the system running.

But yeah inflation itself is not a bad thing if that’s what you’re saying.

I’m happy to pay you $25 for it!

Not so stable this past year tbh

The year is 2027. A beginner programmer searches how to access the last array element in a programming language she is unfamiliar with. The results come in. “Top 10 array accesses that will make you want to buy our sponsors product”. She sighs and asks Claude instead. She pastes the one-liner into her code. Finishes the remaining code. Tests. Double-check. Commit. Push. A notification appears. “Your account has been temporarily suspended for violating GitHub’s terms of service”. Forgot to mark claude as a co-author. She sighs again

I’m sick and tired of these incel memes.

I appreciate your response but I think you are applying Economics 101 haha :P

Monetarism hasn’t held up historically and doesn’t even take employment, growth, savings, price stickiness or export/import into account. Besides, we are talking about government spending, not private sector.

More money in circulation means more taxes - the money gets taken back out. And taxes can always be increased when the economy gets a lil too hot (we are nowhere near that). The picture you are painting onoy holds up when we have full employment and all businesses are at capacity, which is not how things look in most economies right now. More money results in businesses getting more revenue, which they can invest and use to hire more workers. No inflation, just growth and more employment.

The fact that buying power has decreased over the last decade is true but not because of inflation. It’s because neoliberalism has allowed capital to claim all of economic growth for itself. Before neoliberalism, higher profits could be captured for workers by strong unions (broadly speaking)

The kind of inflation that decreases purchasing power is a price shock, which has caused most of the inflation in the last few years. This has indeed impacted the poor most, but this kind of inflation also has nothing to do with an expanding monetary supply.

I really recommend researching MMT or demand-side economics.

Not always, and no.

New money is created all the time, and most of it not even by government spending, but through businesses taking loans.

When governments spend too much in competitive markets, i.e. on resources that aren’t there yet, then yes it drives up prices. Just running a deficit does increase the money supply, which still only causes inflation in some cases.

The classic inflation from the economy working a little too well is not a flat tax, since both wages and prices are growing. Savings on the other hand (except stocks), lose their value. Classic inflation erodes the savings of the rich, and erodes the debts of the poor.

And even then, the central bank can always increase the cost of businesses lending to slow things down. That has other downsides, but the point is:

1. Government deficits don’t always lead to inflation
2. When they do, a bit of inflation is not a bad thing, since wages grow too

But yes, tax the rich. Can’t argue with that

governments with their own currencies don’t require taxes to have/spend money btw

tankies.

Saw these guys live, was a hoot!

I just like a working, customizable PC that I’m in control of. KDE Plasma Desktop is everything Windows should have been, and it’s actually for me to control, it’s free, and it doesn’t push BS on me. Fedora btw

How have I never heard of this distro before?

I didn’t even know that’s a thing! Looks like it’s somewhat new. What a time to be alive!

forgejo supports woodpecker CI I thought?

speaking Korean and being captured in Ukraine should narrow down the possible nationalities quite a bit

Woah, that’s just not okay to say about him.

The goat fucking is all consensual

Is it possible that you have something called “masquerading” enabled on the firewall zone that the server is in?

I’m not really experienced with VLANs but this seems interesting. Is this only for requests from within the network or also for requests coming from outside the network, i.e. from your phone via cellular data or from a VPS?

the whole idea that discussing politics is lame is a neoliberal brainworm.

Don’t discuss politics with your family, just enjoy the time! — okay weird but sure

Don’t talk politics with your friends — what the hell why not

No politics at work — that’s a deeply political place wtf are we doing

And they’ll all be optimized for GPU workloads :(