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Now that you found out that fiat money is inflationary, you can avoid being a chump by investing it or spending it on goods and services -- not stuffing it in your mattress and expecting it to retain its value.
The cool kids know this, and have been doing this "investing and spending" thing all along. Give it a shot
How does that help people attempting to store funds for retirement, the risk averse, or entrepreneurs? Should they be invested in something risky to attempt to keep up with the rate of inflation?
Oh please. If you're a "sound money" fan, let grandma invest in gold, the ...err... gold standard of stability
Of course, there's all kinds of low-risk retirement funds -- investing != high risk.
This debt based "monetary" system encourages risky(stupid) investments by punishing inactivity,
No. Bitcoin securities encourage risky (stupid) investment. Please visit the securities section to learn what 95% failure rate looks like. Inflation encourages you to put your money to work, instead of using it for mattress stuffing. If you don't like to keep your wealth in fiat, and you shouldn't, spend that fiat on whatever you feel is a better store of value. FRB does not prevent you from doing that. In fact, that's what most normal folks do.
just like ppaca does.
Huh?
Even those that thought they were prepared are getting looted, that's why grandma is working at mc donalds now. She may well have saved up what she thought was a significant sum, but then inflation worked it's magic on her savings.
I have no idea what your grandma did, but my parents are quite comfortable, thanks. I haven't had to help them out financially, or give mom lrides to McD's so's she could work the fryer. Nothing short of a full-on Socialist state would protect every grandma from financial misplanning.
Productivity increases are inherently deflationary,
What does that mean?
but when productivity increases are introduced in modern society the only beneficiaries are those that issue the currency or are first to spend it.
Err... wat? You bake cupcakes. You figure out how to bake them faster and more efficiently. If you're in the baking business, you profit from this productivity increase. No?
That's theft through monetary inflation. There's no capitalism without capital as FRB & artificially low interest rates ensures that there's very little capital formation.
Capital isn't affected by FRB, that's not even wrong
. Inflation is not theft. You sound like one of those wacky "Money As Debt" YouT00b vids.
If you want to start a business...BORROW. It's a scam.
Since you understand this, *DON'T BORROW*. Problem solved.