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@ MAHDOOD
2025-06-08 21:23:37
That’s not what textbooks say. When money printing is part of reality, businesses are incentivized to hide the inflation through various means like shrinkflation. That’s when they make the product smaller but keep the price the same. Consumers typically wont notice the change. Another thing that can happen is businesses will reduce the quality of the good. This is what we see across the board in the US. Foods have fake and cheap ingredients now. This wasn’t always the case. A tub of ice cream used to cost $3 with real ingredients. They don’t use real milk when they make ice cream anymore and the tub of ice cream costs more than $3. The brands that use real milk to make ice cream cost nearly $10 for small container of ice cream now. It’s not because of greed. The quality of clothing is also much worse. Appliances don’t last as long as they used to. You can still get the stuff that does last but they are a lot more expensive. These are the consequences of money printing. You can still get a fridge that lasts 10+ years but you probably can’t afford it.