trying to describe hyperinflation through the galaxybrain take of "money is a paper representation of people's promises to each other". What happens to the promises when inflation happens? One eg is that too much money has been printed, so the promises are... "stretched"...? 
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(riffing) there's some "quantity" of total debt in a community and if you print out more of the paper that represents the debt, then the same amount of debt gets spread over more paper... meaning each piece of paper now represents a smaller "fraction" of debt...
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Replying to @visakanv
Maybe it’s like a polyamorous relationship. The trust is still there but due to physical limitations it’s a given that balls will be dropped the thinner everyone is spread. Forms of locking down the future(schedules) help to the extent the future can be predicted.
2:38 PM - 5 Jan 2020
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