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> The US alone effectively created that much money out of thin air during the pandemic. All of the countries combined printed far more.

The difference being that most of that money ended up in rich people’s pockets, and are now causing a global economic crisis.



I am not sure of that. If all that money ended up in rich people's pocket, never to see the light of day again we won't be having the inflation crisis. The money through various investments is now out in the open, driving up inflation. It is still unequally distributed and that is causing issues. If there was a magical way to distribute that money equally between everyone inflation won't be an issue. Unfortunately magic isn't real.


I don't claim to know the full causes of the current inflation issues, but inflation can also be caused by a reduction in productivity, not just by an increase in money supply.


There needs to be a reduction in productivity while everyone magically staying at the same income levels though to keep demand high.

The rapid increase in just human labor prices seems to indicate that money is making it to people somehow because COVID didn’t kill enough of the labor force to have that kind of effect.


Rich people don't keep their money under the mattress. It's invested in assets that make it available to the economy.


If you used the money to build renewable infrastructure, most of the money would still end up in rich people's pockets, because typically it's rich people who own the means of producing infrastructure.


No it didn’t. If it all just ended up in rich people’s pockets it wouldn’t have caused this kind of inflation and supply shortages for all of these every day items.




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