I am noodling on a vague idea: many kinds of capital are going from own --> rent, capex --> opex because hassle of owning things is too high when the opex is sufficiently efficient.
Can this apply to everything, including money? When is it easier to rent money than to own it?
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Yeah, debt is how you rent money, and inflation favors debtor while deflation favors creditor... but feels like there ought to be more to it
This mechanism (inflation reducing real value of debt) as well as conversion of any capex to opex in general is about stability and resilience of the income stream supporting the expenditure.
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Yes, the corporate CFO rabbit hole is a deep one.
But that's the rabbit hole on whose threshold you noodle.
imo the "more" is: you could rent cars before uber (hertz, etc), but with technology uber allowed you to microrent the car (for a single trip, rather than ~day(s))
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