Nearly 60 and I still don’t “get” inflation. Can anyone explain? Thank you.

  • unconsequential@slrpnk.net
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    12 hours ago

    “Everything is made up and the points don’t matter!”

    I am of no help on this topic other than, the value of money is literally made up. We just sort of agree how much it’s worth at this point. Which doesn’t seem to be decided by you or me.

    Also, “it’s complicated” is usually code for: this is really straight forward but bad so let’s make it hard to understand to hide the bad part.

    But, as I understand it, we all collectively hallucinate value and when we start to sober up they have to rush and hit us with another dose. We’re just perpetually rebalancing our illusion.