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In 1960, minimum wage in the US was $1.00/hour and the price of the average house was $11,000.00 That was before Nixon decided to drop millions of tons of bombs on Vietnam and pay for it with paper money. Reagan came along and paid for his tax giveaways by printing even more money. In 1960, $1 million was considered a vast fortune that could buy a dozen luxury homes. Now it's what a rich guy pays for a party.
GOP polices destroyed the middle class.
What you are describing is inflation. It was a thing before Nixon, and will continue to be a thing in the future.
You're funny. Yes, inflation existed before Nixon, and warfare existed before nuclear weapons. Just because something exists, that doesn't mean it can't be made worse.
unless we on mass decide to ditch the confetti money and go to a real money such as gold or silver like we used to
I'll do you one better. Let's just stop using money altogether. It's kind of dumb.
How would we trade resources through cows or would you just shoot people and take theirs? Because money represents an easy way of trading resources back and forth. And it's a standard because cows don't weigh the same, etc.
See, we already rely on the government to establish our currency and distribute it to begin with. It really just seems like a middle man with extra steps.
Capitalists really seem to hate the idea of governmental control Over commodities, but that's literally all a government does even with money at the helm. The very money they produce.
Then you deal with debasement though?
This isnt quite a caveman take but close.
We should separate money and state completely and have a money that the state cannot ever control. And my vote is physical gold and silver or monero