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[-] pungunner@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

No expert, but another advantage of inflation is to create incentives to invest/spend money. With a deflation you are rewarding people that keep their money in a pillowcase. Which is probably bad.

Additionally there probably are some control structures to increase or decrease inflation, but they will bring their own cost with them. So controlling Inflation may be not controllable enough/not worth it to do so.

Bitcoin is deflationary and why it has failed as an alternative currency. Nobody wants to spend it. HODL.

this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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