This is what I don't get about goldbugs and people who think that the value of currency should never erode over time. Why does society owe you the preservation of your purchasing power? Why should you get to time-travel your wealth without taking any risks?
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Joe Weisenthal Retweeted Dominator008
Like, think about the implications of this chart. That someone in 1913 should expect to have the same level of purchasing 100 years later while literally taking zero risks. Why is that something anyone owes you?https://twitter.com/Dominator0081/status/1062109048005259264 …
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It is reasonable to expect a return similar to what nature and culture have provided for millenia, and to try to improve on that rather than make it worse https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/03/collecting-metal-inner-and-outer-worlds.html …
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