so the common story is that gold peg was responsible for the great depression b/c there was "bootstrap" mechanism to escape the local minimum & that expenditure during ww2 was the trigger for escape velocitypic.twitter.com/XyYjs8n7k0
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it's unclear what would've happened if the gold peg were maintained but given what's happens politically at the company level, i wouldn't be surprised if this twisting of history was even more severe at the sovereign state level
just to steelman history as "what needed to happen" u can make the argument that forced centralization causes indirect impoverishment BUT forced centralization is the only way to defend against another entity's collective action (e.g. nazi germany)
war isn't even necessary. collective action like "closing a border" or "wearing masks" is warlike in that it can potentially widen an economic gap. decentralization cannot defend against collective action w/o becoming centralized itself
the point of decentralization isn't to replace or overthrow centralization. it is to have checks and balances in place so that centralization is incentivized to be useful. w/o a decentralized alternative to compare against, it rots & stagnateshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1400204734741446656 …
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