• @[email protected]
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    Well, thing is, some product categories probably aren’t suffering the same price hikes as groceries, fuel and rent. Stuff like cable and internet, clothing and office supplies are probably bringing the average down (please tell me if they’re having inflation, I pulled these categories out of my butt).

    • PenguinJuice
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      21 year ago

      I hope we see deflation eventually… I know it’s not good for the economy but no one wants to pay 100 dollars for a coke

      • @FellowEarthling
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        151 year ago

        That’s the fun part! It never deflates! I guarantee lots more prices for consumer goods could have already come down, but damn do they love the idea of keeping those price points where they are. We already need another round of inflation on wages to get to where we were.

        • @nbafantest
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          There have been periods of deflation in the past.

      • @[email protected]
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        no one wants to pay 100 dollars for a coke

        Reminds me of a comic strip where a guy goes to Japan and orders a coffee. The cashier says the total is 300 yen and the guy says “damn, coffee is expensive here!”

          • eric
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            31 year ago

            Still sounds a lot more than the $3 I pay here (even though it’s less than half as much).

      • @[email protected]
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        Problem with deflation is: what do people do when theres deflation when it comes to optional expenses? Well, they may postepone them in hopes that prices go further down, this means that there’s less demand, prices go downer, businesses may start to fail, putting people in unemployment, reducing demand, and death spiral. Basically same thing as inflation death spiral but with deflation. Consumer confidence is a very delicate thing

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          this means that there’s less demand, prices go downer, businesses may start to fail, putting people in unemployment, reducing demand,

          I’ve always been skeptical of this and I’m not really aware of historical examples that prove it. The part I just quoted - “less demand, prices go downer, businesses may start to fail” - that means supply decreases too. All that’s really happening if you have a couple % deflation is that people are slightly more incentivized to hold onto their money, and the fact is that currencies don’t just naturally appreciate in value that much, at most in the long term I think you have “the same amount of money in circulation” vs. population growth causing it to chase a slightly larger economy.

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              I’m sure this does get lumped into “causes of Hitler’s rise to power/WWII” list somewhere. I seem to recall the inflation immediately prior being a lot more famous - that Germany was mandated by treaty to pay reparations after WWII, and that the Weimar Republic printed so much money people were using it as wallpaper or burning it as firewood (supposedly at least). In general, that there was a widespread sense Germany had been wounded somehow, which he was able to capitalize on, telling people to “fight back” against the minority groups he characterized as the forces of oppression. That’d be everywhere between 1918 and 1933 or so. Not so much “the purchasing value of money marginally increased for a one year period prior to Hitler’s rise”.

              • @[email protected]
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                It’s a myth that the hyperinflation was the reason for hitlers rise. The hyperinflation occurred in 1923. Hitler tried a coup in November 1923, failed miserably, was thrown into prison and the party was banned for a while. In 1928 they had 2,6% in the election.

                https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstagswahl_1928?wprov=sfla1

                Only during Brünings deflation politics the nsdap gained momentum. The vote 1930 gave them 18,3% and in 1932 37,3%. Now compare that to the deflation graph of the other Wikipedia link I gave last comment.

                • @dx1
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                  11 year ago

                  Well, simply attributing it to either side of inflation/deflation is overly simplistic. The simple way of putting it is that people were unhappy in Germany and Hitler was able to capitalize on it in a political campaign against a supposed cause. The German economy in general was on shaky ground following WWI but this was alleviated partially by the Dawes/Young plans, right up until the Great Depression actually started affecting that foreign aid and the economy took another major hit, at which point the Nazis were able to use this as evidence of a “failure in leadership” from the current government, getting Hitler appointed as chancellor, then Reichstag fire started & he seized power.

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            11 year ago

            It probably only is problematic in the same amount that inflation is bad. If it’s a little, it’s fine. If it’s a lot, you’re screwed

            • @dx1
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              21 year ago

              TBH this strikes me as the kind of thought that doesn’t come from careful consideration of how it would actually play out.

      • @[email protected]
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        This breaks the current economic system and will only occur safely once capitalistic GDP and population growth has ceased completely

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            I also thinks it needs some rattling. But I don’t particularly want to plunge an additional billion+ people into new food shortages and poverty to trigger the necessary reforms if we can’t help it.

      • diprount_tomato
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        21 year ago

        When inflation is up the roof I doubt it’s that bad

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        If you get normal inflation of 2%, you will never see a 100$ coke. The cumulative inflation in 100 years in “only” 700%.

    • diprount_tomato
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      21 year ago

      Doubt it’s such a huge difference to make a significant impact