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Two things can be true at the same time. Power systems do tend to work for the powerful. But that doesn't mean they can't also be valuable to everybody. Or even valuable to the average person much more than the powerful person. Look, for example, at food regulation. Anybody who has worked in a restaurant can tell you a) how important food safety is, and b) how much health department regulations contribute to keeping…
It seems pretty hard to me to look at charts of inflation, income inequality, and quantitative easing and compare them to stock market values and not see how the system is allowing the rich and powerful to use inflation to suck money away from everyone not heavily in the market (especially the poor as inflation is a highly regressive tax) and into their own pockets through increases in valuation. And then look at the…
It's not that simple. You're talking like poor people are debt-free and keep jealously-guarded meager savings in cash. However, chances are they have far more debt than assets and no savings whatsoever, so inflation doesn't hurt them (so long as their wages keep up) and may even help them.
I'm not sure if this actually applies to you, but your comment reads a bit like cherry-picking in the name of some ideological fixation (e.g. crypto/gold bug opposition to the idea of inflation. leading to attempts to paint inflation as the worst thing ever).