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The author nails it in that inflation alarmists really hate the state. Inflation is really the cost of MMT and our modern state power. Central banks, whether intended to be separate or not, are the backbone that every state is built and funded on.

They also have issues with taxation. Taxes are largely used today to take money out of the economy and control the purchasing power of currency.

Most people having any awareness of the underpinnings and reason that our money is the way it is. Like the fish asking, "what is water?"

Money is still evolving. If these central bankers and tax collectors push people too hard, something else may emerge as money.



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