• Captain Aggravated
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    26 days ago

    I hear about these cases of inflation, like the fact a pack of gum cost 15 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, or immediately after WWII the German…reichmarke or whatever they called it, was so worthless it took a wheelbarrow full to buy a loaf of bread.

    Where do I get a wheelbarrow full of uselessly inflated USD? It’s not actually inflation, is it?

    • @ultranaut@lemmy.world
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      116 days ago

      You’re thinking of hyperinflation. If that happens in the US you can have your wheelbarrow of dollars. Inflation makes money worth less, hyperinflation makes money worthless.