The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoDon't hate the playerlemmy.worldimagemessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1279
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minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoLong story short: Keynes wrote a fairy tale about inflation raising wages and shortening the work week Richard Nixon started inflation as we know it Economists worldwide fell into line Shockingly, wages didn’t go up, the work week didn’t shorten, and we now have record-breaking inequality (due to the Cantillon effect). To this day, people who paid to “learn” the fairy tale insist that inflation is good.
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To this day, people who paid to “learn” the fairy tale insist that inflation is good.