• Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    The way I’ve always heard it described is that if you are in a deflationary environment, there’s no incentive to spend your money today when it will be worth more tomorrow, so it has a dampening effect on consumer spending and investment which is bad for the economy.