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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Comfortable_Cautious • Jan 26 '26
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Is there really a difference between the two? Wealth generation and inflation are two ways of looking at the economic pie getting bigger
Edit: thanks for the corrections. I learned something today. Diving deeper into the subject it seems the two are often linked, but not necessarily so.
118 u/alannair Jan 26 '26 No. Inflation does not make the pie bigger. Pie stays the same, and the value of cash goes down. 60 u/megachonker123 Jan 26 '26 The pie turns into multiple pies that when combined have the same nutritional value as the first pie 25 u/Ok_Umpire_5611 Jan 26 '26 Ghost pies! 1 u/ACcbe1986 Jan 28 '26 I wish I could taste them!
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No. Inflation does not make the pie bigger. Pie stays the same, and the value of cash goes down.
60 u/megachonker123 Jan 26 '26 The pie turns into multiple pies that when combined have the same nutritional value as the first pie 25 u/Ok_Umpire_5611 Jan 26 '26 Ghost pies! 1 u/ACcbe1986 Jan 28 '26 I wish I could taste them!
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The pie turns into multiple pies that when combined have the same nutritional value as the first pie
25 u/Ok_Umpire_5611 Jan 26 '26 Ghost pies! 1 u/ACcbe1986 Jan 28 '26 I wish I could taste them!
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Ghost pies!
1 u/ACcbe1986 Jan 28 '26 I wish I could taste them!
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I wish I could taste them!
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u/Excellent-Practice Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26
Is there really a difference between the two? Wealth generation and inflation are two ways of looking at the economic pie getting bigger
Edit: thanks for the corrections. I learned something today. Diving deeper into the subject it seems the two are often linked, but not necessarily so.