Deflation is a fiction!

Published April 28, 2025

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    00:02 hey everyone so uh now and then the
    00:05 topic of deflation comes up so what is
    00:07 deflation deflation is when prices are
    00:09 falling rather than Rising the natural
    00:12 state of the universe is that prices
    00:14 should be falling not Rising it is only
    00:17 because the government has duped you
    00:20 into believing that prices should rise
    00:22 that they do if the government did not
    00:24 print money out of thin air there would
    00:25 not be rising prices there’s no reason
    00:28 prices have to rise making your life
    00:30 harder to live that is entirely a
    00:32 fiction created by governments to enable
    00:35 enable them to print more money so if
    00:37 you want the details of this uh read
    00:39 Jeff Booth’s book the price of tomorrow
    00:42 uh which is a book about deflation um
    00:45 but the short take is anytime you have
    00:47 sound money whether it’s gold whether
    00:49 it’s uh Bitcoin I mean gold is more
    00:51 scarce than uh sorry Bitcoin is more
    00:53 scarce than gold but gold is more scarce
    00:56 than anything other than Bitcoin so
    00:58 let’s group them together as sound money
    00:59 even though coin is more sound money if
    01:02 you have something with a finite Supply
    01:03 like gold or Bitcoin um it will be
    01:06 deflationary meaning you will be able to
    01:09 buy more stuff over time with that asset
    01:13 than you can uh without that asset or
    01:15 than you can with sort of a fiat
    01:17 currency or something that is not uh you
    01:19 know that is priced in an unlimited
    01:20 Supply but that is a good thing so if
    01:23 you ask the average consumer would you
    01:25 rather have the price of everything go
    01:28 the direction of you know large flat
    01:31 screen TVs or the current medical system
    01:35 most people would prefer the the the
    01:37 price of flat screen TVs so technology
    01:39 in our lives my first computer cost
    01:41 thousands of dollars you can buy a way
    01:43 way way better one for a few hundred
    01:45 dollars right now at Best Buy or even
    01:47 $100 or less than $100 at Best Buy you
    01:50 can buy a better computer than cost me
    01:52 thousands uh you know 25 years ago um
    01:55 same with televisions you can buy a
    01:57 massive large-screen TV for a few
    02:00 hundred bucks when those first came out
    02:02 they were thousands of dollars nobody is
    02:04 complaining that the price of
    02:05 televisions the price of computers the
    02:07 price of electronics in general
    02:09 especially you know uh uh generic
    02:12 Electronics obviously the price of
    02:13 something like an iPhone is more
    02:14 expensive but that’s because it’s part
    02:16 of an exclusive uh ecosystem and it gets
    02:18 you know way better every time and all
    02:20 that sort of stuff but for things where
    02:21 there’s competition um and there is for
    02:24 like Android phones you know the price
    02:25 of Android phones keeps coming down even
    02:27 if iPhones do not um the economy works
    02:30 great when things are getting cheaper it
    02:32 works way better for everyone when
    02:34 things are getting cheaper uh the only
    02:36 reason people are opposed to price drops
    02:38 is because economists Keynesian
    02:40 economists and John Maynard kees was one
    02:43 of the worst humans that ever lived as
    02:45 far as Damage Done To The World uh
    02:48 because his ideas were so flawed it was
    02:50 based on the fact that everybody should
    02:51 be deeply in debt and you know uh you
    02:55 know we should have huge massive
    02:56 governments and all this sort of stuff
    02:57 it was just awful ideas but anyway uh
    03:00 since uh the mainstream media and
    03:04 Academia the colleges and universities
    03:06 mostly are occupied by people who
    03:08 believe in these big government ideas
    03:11 and you know big Government Solutions
    03:14 they’re all in favor of more money
    03:15 printing because it gives the government
    03:16 more money when the government prints
    03:18 money they get it first and you get it
    03:21 later when all the prices are up which
    03:23 means the government the when the
    03:24 government prints money it doesn’t do
    03:25 you any good it does someone else good
    03:28 and then you just get the the result
    03:29 which is the high prices so um
    03:31 everything in the world should be going
    03:33 down in price not up the entire world
    03:35 would be better off if everything was
    03:37 slowly trending cheaper if your wages
    03:40 and your paycheck bought more a little
    03:43 bit more every two weeks wouldn’t that
    03:45 be great well that is what deflation is
    03:47 it’s when the price of what you need
    03:49 gets cheaper over time rather than going
    03:52 up and that used to be the case back
    03:55 when the world was on a sound money
    03:56 standard and especially it became not
    03:59 the case after 197 1 when Richard Nixon
    04:02 officially took the US dollar off the
    04:04 gold standard and made it based on
    04:06 nothing literally a figment of the
    04:08 government’s imagination which is why
    04:09 it’s called fiat currency because it’s
    04:11 made by Fiat which is just a dictate by
    04:14 the government that something has value
    04:16 even though it’s not based on any sort
    04:17 of scarcity or uh you know anything like
    04:20 that so if you want more details read
    04:23 Jeff Boo’s book the price of tomorrow
    04:26 and he goes into all the details and you
    04:28 know you’ll you know you you’ll know
    04:30 everything you wanted to know about
    04:31 deflation but uh deflation is good again
    04:34 as long as it’s caused by economic
    04:36 growth and it’s not artificially induced
    04:40 um like it was in the Great Depression
    04:41 where they massively reduce the money
    04:43 supply for no good reason um so uh as
    04:46 long as you’re based on a sound money
    04:48 standard and the um you know it’s not
    04:51 artificially induced as a uh sort of a
    04:53 shock imposed by the government uh which
    04:55 happened during the great Great
    04:57 Depression um then deflation is
    04:59 fantastic and Bitcoin would create
    05:01 deflation everything priced in Bitcoin
    05:03 keeps getting cheaper everything priced
    05:05 in Gold keeps getting a little bit
    05:07 cheaper over over a long enough time
    05:09 period but everything priced in Bitcoin
    05:11 gets way cheaper over a long enough time
    05:14 frame um you used to have to you know a
    05:17 house would cost you 10,000 Bitcoin and
    05:20 now a house costs you a few Bitcoin so
    05:22 anyway um so deflation is a good thing
    05:25 uh we’ve only the only reason people
    05:27 think it’s not is because we’ve been
    05:28 lied to by the government and their
    05:30 cronies to enable them to print money
    05:32 and nobody has a good answer for why
    05:34 inflation has to be 4% a year or even 2%
    05:37 a year nobody has a good explanation for
    05:40 why the prices have to go up they have
    05:43 to go up so that someone else can print
    05:44 money at your expense that’s the answer
    05:47 that is why prices have to go up because
    05:50 that is a natural consequence of
    05:51 printing money and they want to print
    05:53 money that you can’t have first and they
    05:57 have to have I mean that creates
    05:58 inflation you cannot print money without
    06:00 inflation you cannot get inflation
    06:03 without money printing that is the the
    06:05 two of them are always

QUESTION: Here’s a topic for a video if you haven’t tackled it yet: deflation. It’s a repeated refrain that Bitcoin couldn’t work as the world’s money because it’s deflationary, and deflation == bad. It would encourage hoarding, stifle investment, grind the economy to a halt, etc etc. Keynesian orthodoxy is now common sense. What say you? (anecdotal example of the common objections: https://www.reddit.com/…/comments/1hw90tj/comment/m60t9y1/)

I don’t doubt that there would have to be a complete (and likely uncomfortable) paradigm shift along the way, given the entire world economy right now is based upon debt. But I guess the overarching question is whether a deflationary system would ultimately lead to human flourishing, or rather economic depression and decline as many speculate, and why.

**Originally recorded on 1/13/25**

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