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@ Boomblink182
2025-04-29 00:54:17
If "money" is a record of merit, a way of documenting the value you've created for others (like working, selling goods, providing services) and storing the right to claim something of equal value in the future, then money is like a "notebook of good deeds" that you can use to exchange for good things produced by others in the future.
Now, if inflation occurs, and the government or central bank keeps printing more money to distribute, it's similar to someone sneaking into the vault of "merit records" and forging signatures to add more. Ultimately, the "merit" you've painstakingly accumulated is devalued because others, who haven't created anything, can equally claim goods from you.
Therefore, when money is a record of merit, inflation is a silent betrayal of morality.
"Inflation is the theft of the merit you've accumulated throughout your life, without firing a single shot."