Message from @Beemann
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If everyone stopped spending nobody would be buying food
Okay let's break this down though
do i need to pay with money?
There's 1000 dollars in the economy. I hoard 100 dollars of it. Only 900 dollars can be traded
why can't i do something for someone in exchange for food?
^^
Why is the economy going to fail now?
You could, grenade
You can't charge more than someone is willing to pay
Or rather more than anyone is willing
But what reason do you have to do something for someone who has nothing you want?
Or you won't trade
That's the role money fills. It's essentially a shape-shifting good.
Currency would have to scale to what the economy allows
how does one hoard money?
that would imply doing things for people, but people giving you stuff for free
No
How does one hoard rocks?
you get paid for your labor, but you don't pay people for their labor
I sell a product for 10 dollars, I spend 1 dollar on food I spend 2 dollars on services. I keep the rest
so you produce more than you consume
Yes, and then you store it
and this is harmful....
Or "hoard"
I would say no
Yes it is harmful coz no monetary exists in a vacume. More money will be printed to inlfate your saving aways or people will start trading in things they can get their on.
why?
So poppy
go on
The harm would arguably be in printing more money
Not in Hoarding it
Sorry BTW for dropping such a heavy topic and responding in blurbs. I got called for a delivery...
Unless you make a currency that can be infinitely devisable then yes. The population is going to grow so either the supply needs to grow or the value needs to grow.
If you hoard it, then value of each dollar goes up. At some point, in order to keep hoarding it, i'd need to produce everything i need myself, because otherwise i will need to pay out more than i get in because of the value increase of each piece of money
You did make an argument that lead to inflation, but I think the dispute is in causation
each piece of money i hoard, increases the value of traded money.
Grenades picking up what I'm laying down.
and i can only hoard money if i produce more than I consume, value wise, or i don't consume.
which means i need to produce more for each piece of money i hoard
Bingo