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karaterobot on Dec 26, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: 100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearin...

> Barring specific examples of governments inflating their currencies to escape sovereign (not individual!) debts, can you explain how inflation "defrauds" anyone?

Why this would be barred?

woodruffw on Dec 26, 2021 [–]

Because it's a form of sovereign financial structuring, not the state attempting to defraud individual citizens.

It's another one to file under "words mean specific things, and abusing the language does a disservice to an otherwise reasonable point."

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