Why?

hang on. I know this one.

>stores will sell products nobody is buying

I don't understand

you can go down to there being only 1 dollar in the system, people will just rip the dollar in 2, now you have 2 half dollars

or someone will start using something else as a new currency, or just trade directly tit for tat

Sorry I've that wrong up there.

the worst that can happen is everyone is just focused on providing for themselves and no-one else.

I used to know all this stuff.

So does anyone fully disagree or did I make my case? (I didn't go into specifics even, yet)

I'm not convinced. You are just going to lower the money supply. Why would I spend today when it's going to be worth more tomorrow? I just makes the problem worse. Unless you print money to fill gap. Where that gap be caused by hording or population growth.

do you have enough to afford not spending today?

and will it be worth more tomorrow? everything will be more expensive tomorrow too

maybe it will be worth more tomorrow, but you will get less in return

what you currently own will be worth more, but your income will be less because each dollar will be worth more

Grenade making my arguments for me.

its just logic

money doesn't have value, it is a place holder for value

change the place holder doesn't change the value

Basically that

bread takes x human work to make. therefore it is worth x human work.

And what do you do if you're in debt. The money you borrowed yesterday becomes impossible to pay.

I mean, living within your means is the best option...

why would debt not get negative interest?

because each dollar you pay to them is now worth more than before

Getting a mortage that I can pay is living in my means, it also gives me somewhere to live.

so they don't need to recover your full debt to still make money

Ideally that would be the case

Part of the problem is that we look at the benjamins wrong

And look at work wrong.

Cultural problems

so they don't need to recover your full debt to still make money
thats not how this works.

yes it is

i give you money, you pay me back plus extra

It actually is. You're still thinking of money as a score and not as goods.

Granted EVERYTHING gets messy when you start taking loans.

they may still try and collect on that debt, but then again, you could probably take them to court

we have never really had deflation, that doesn't mean people can;t be reasonable

Real deflation hasn't been tried.

I think it has. It's called a 'hair cut' the Greeks used to it.

okay, not in modern times