yes, yes, we all know that capitalism relies fundamentally on a money supply that expands forever and ever, and that nothing about the whole grift keeps working if prices are falling or even just stable for extended periods. We need to issue loans today that are payable in future dollars which we are certain will be worth less than today's dollars or the whole shebang is basically out the window. "A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow" must be true the vast majority of the time for debt, credit, home loans, the national debt, municipal bonds, treasury bonds, the stock market, the overnight repo market, and central banks, just to name a few, to function whatsoever.

Wages increased along inflation? Bull shit 😅

"Pay workers twice the cost of living and the economy will thrive" - ~~Adam Smith~~ some fucking commienist

Guessing here: deflation is worse for us than inflation for economic reasons. However, in this capitalistic hellscape of a prison server we now live on, I’m pretty sure the inflation we do have is completely imaginary pricing to steal more capital from the working class before we destroy each other (hopefully billionaires first, but come on, that’s a joke too).

How selfish can you assholes be?! Don’t you realize your suffering is load-bearing?! Without it, the whole system that allows Jeff Bezos to live like King Solomon will collapse!

incredible. this society needs to END.

Is there a link to the actual text of the article or are we just sufficiently enraged by headlines now?

I'll take my chances with everyone having more money. The economy dies when no one can buy anything.

No problem, as long as my salary is increased more than the groceries...

Deflation is actually pretty awful for everyone, it creates a negative feedback loop that results in widespread job losses. The Great Depression was largely driven by a deflationary spiral.

Indeed. What world is this if that half a dozen multi-millionaires that control 90% of the western economy can no longer have increased profits year over year??!