Imagine island economy of 21 guys. 20 humble plebs living there and one king. King starts with 90% of all coins on the island.

Bitcoin world with fixed amount of coins:

- a pleb produces a new good = value X is created.

- each coin on the island is now (1+X)/1 times more valuable relatively to before. (Other words, prices of goods got cheaper; deflation)

- if king wants the good, he pays his coin of value X for the good to the pleb. King then has 90% - X coins, and plebs have 10% + X coins.

- if the king doesn't produce any value, and buys out any amount of non-durable goods of not fixed value, he will be slowly shifting his wealth to the value producing plebs.

- true equality

Fiat world where king = central banker:

- pleb produces good, value X is created, everyone is (1+X)/1 richer (price deflation)

- king wants the good, so he prints the money of value X (zero real value produced, just a theft of everyone's 1/(1+X) value of their coins (including king's coins)

- if king started with 90% of all coins, he would end up debasing his own savings by 0.9X and plebs' savings by 0.1X for the sake of acquiring 1.0X.

- this is unfairness, and if extrapolated, the king who pays for his goods by printing money, ends up owning bigger and bigger share of coins.

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I feel like I went onan Keynesian tangent here. Lol.

Probably too many arbitrary assumption and LoGiC, just to say that money printing is theft. And that you can't keep your share of high wealth in Bitcoin economy unless you produce below average rate of value.