I start by asking people: As technology advances and productivity improves, should life get cheaper or more expensive?
Everyone agrees, price should go down. Yet we’re raised in a system that conditions us to believe prices should rise. Few people ever ask why.
Yeah, I usually frame it in the context of discussing with the person what money is, and I never get a person that says, “It’s the thing that represents and stores the value of the energy a person or entity expends to do something productive, that can’t be devalued by another entity.” People don’t get that. I usually discuss the deflationary effect of technology as well. It’s hard to make people understand without them doing some work on their own, and a lot of people just won’t do that.
