r/SipsTea • • 10h ago

SMH We already spent it

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u/According-Insect-992 10h ago

The wealthy love inflation. It makes their money more valuable by devaluing our buying power. It makes people desperate and primed for exploitation.

As long as we allow the ultra wealthy to control government things will continue to get worse for her average person.

The wealthy are openly hostile to working families and want to harm us. This should be obvious to anyone paying attention. For the same reasons they oppose union organization. They can’t tolerate working people being treated with dignity or respect.

We really need to deal with this open head wound affecting our society.

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u/Outrageous_Bad_5365 8h ago

Inflation devalues portfolios. The wealthy don’t love it but they do take advantage of downturns to buy low.

Governments LOVE a little bit of inflation because it makes their old debt cheaper. No one loves when inflation is over 4%.

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u/CalyShadezz 8h ago

Even devalued in my hypothetical they still made the inflation equivalent of $475k for nothing. Expand this scenario to hundred of millions or billions and you start to understand how easy it is for the wealthy to stay wealthy.

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u/Outrageous_Bad_5365 8h ago

Inflation isn’t money “made”. Inflation is that the price of goods increased. A person with a lot of money will hedge their portfolio so it’s protected against inflation - not use inflation as an instrument. The comment I replied to claimed the wealthy love it.

And no sh** that if you have money it’s much easier to survive a storm.