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> Would you accept to be paid less and less every year (month, week...)

Because they'd be able to buy more and more with that money, obviously.



If everyone changed their prices, and their salary all at once you did nothing at all. You just changed a number - you didn't increase the money supply at all.

i.e. the total amount of purchasing power didn't change.


Exactly- So the claim that deflation (i.e. decreasing prices) will hurt liquidity is false.


How did you manage to get that from what I wrote?

Of course deflation hurts liquidity - if you have less money, there is less floating around for people to use.


Less money in denomination, but the total purchasing power isn't less.




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