| ▲ | jimaway123 9 hours ago | |
It's called inflation. If you helicopter money on people they will bid up the prices of everything that they need. We had an experiment with this just a few years ago. | ||
| ▲ | micromacrofoot 8 hours ago | parent [-] | |
except that the biggest handouts during covid went to businesses, not people... so we didn't really, it was also a very supply constrained economy which was unique to the situation at the very least locking up a trillion dollars with some douchebag isn't a reasonable strategy against inflation | ||