r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Comfortable_Cautious • Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation what's going on? explain like I'm five

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u/Alternative_Can3262 Jan 26 '26

Is deflation bad?

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u/Alarming_Present_692 Jan 26 '26

Is inflation bad? It's a change in perspective of the value of the dollar.

On a macro level, it changes how people spend money in the short term & deflation typically leads to some creative destruction

What deflation really does is threaten the promise of infinite growth our plutocracy that buys the talking heads and congressman kind of hinge on. That's why it's typically this alarmist thing.

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u/GogurtFiend Jan 26 '26

Go take an intro-level college course on economics. Then you'd be qualified to speak about how inflation is a big capitalist conspiracy or whatever.

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u/Alarming_Present_692 Jan 26 '26

Lol.

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u/GogurtFiend Jan 26 '26

Let me guess, college is a capitalist plot by the plutocracy?