Those seem incompatible to me.

(UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)

  • @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    46 months ago

    Why could that not have an explanation that is primarily about economic forces? They printed a ton of money around when Covid happened, and the distribution of wealth shifted significantly. I can buy that businesses could be eking out a little more efficiency by coordinating, but not that we are in a secret command economy and economics is basically all fake.

    • @orrk@lemmy.world
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      46 months ago

      the “printing of money” has fuck all to do with inflation, and mainly comes from pop-economics that is stuck somewhere around mercantilism.

      Corporation simply realized that they are playing the prisoner’s dilemma with prices, and are now going for the “optimal solution”

      • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        16 months ago

        How do you figure you can increase the number of dollars in circulation, while shrinking the economy, and not have each dollar be worth less wealth as a result?

        • @orrk@lemmy.world
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          15 months ago

          because the value of money isn’t tied to the amount in existence, never has, even the rare metal backed gang is just extrapolating the value axiom by one