Prices of things are becoming absolutely insane. $800+ rent, $30,000 cars, $10 sub sandwiches, etc. It would be nice to do a 3/1 split and cut everything by 2/3. Then we would have $266 rent, $10,000 cars, and $3.33 sub sandwiches. Wages, debts, everything would drop to 1/3 what they are now. It would also make coins useful again since a vending machine soda would be 2 quarters again.

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    10 months ago

    But the United States is getting to a point where they will not be able to make good on their loans unless they print more money, which will then cause inflation and make the dollars they repay the loan with worth less to the person/company/country who made the loan. We already pay more on our debt than we spend on the military and considering the US cannot stay out of other people’s business, that’s saying something.

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      10 months ago

      But the United States is getting to a point where they will not be able to make good on their loans unless they print more money,

      I’m sorry but to convince me you’d have to find a VERY good source for that claim. Government bonds are the safest bet in the game for a reason. The situation you’re describing would be a global collapse of most economies.

      Anyway, you seem very interested in this topic, I hope you find the answers you’re looking for, but I think that wraps this conversation up for me.