• volodya_ilich
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    15 days ago

    No, I’m not talking of “printing” because nowadays money is created digitally.

    Again, you’re showing your lack of knowledge of economics. Inflation is mostly not generated by creation of money. Have a look at all the inflationary episodes that the USA has lived over the past 100 years, and you’ll find that not one of them was caused by creation of currency. That’s not to say that the state should create infinite currency or that it can do so without generating macroeconomic imbalances, but creation of money to employ people in these sectors isn’t a driver of inflation, and could actually serve to deflate prices.

    If you create public housing for cheap and sell it for cheap, you reduce housing prices which reduces inflation. If you create public hospital which treat people for free, you’ll have a more efficient system of healthcare that spends less money per patient (for example the US spends more than twice as much in healthcare per patient than Spain and its quality is much worse for the average citizen), therefore reducing the cost of healthcare for people. If you make good public universities funded with state budgets you can reduce enormously the overly inflated tuition costs in current US universities, therefore again reducing inflation.

    You keep showing me that you’ve never looked at the empirical evidence that supports the “facts” of economics you’re saying, i.e., you’re just repeating what neoliberal grifters say, and I’m sorry but they’re proven wrong. I suggest you look into it with a more critical eye and look at the actual evidence.