• @ubergeek@lemmy.today
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    23 months ago

    You conflate the latter with “the rich”, which is generally true for corporations, but corporations are not the only form of business; there are cooperatives, partnerships, and others which can distribute profits more fairly.

    And if those other types of business don’t place “Profit maximization” as their primary focus, then a deflationary period wouldn’t be bad for them, either.

    Again, it’s only bad for people with debt. And the more debt you have, the worse delfation is for you.

    Debt, is really only “good” if you are a corporation. Because debt lets you spend a load of money that ain’t yours, and getting the working class deep into debt is a good way to ensure you have a decent slave labor force.

    • @GorgeousWalrus@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      Complete layman’s take on deflation, but wouldn’t trading basically stop with deflation?

      Say I buy a product for 4$ and the next day due to deflation I can only sell it for 3$, why would I then go and try to trade said product?

      It would be bad to have anything on shelf for a prolonged period. Food would probably not be affected due to its short shelf-time, but hardware stores, electronics, basically anything else would have the risk of significant losses. These stores would simply close, no?

      That also extends to global trade - big cargo ships are sailing for weeks before they can distribute their goods. The whole time the products would loose value.

      Probably I’m wrong, but if that’s true, deflation would really make the shit hit the fan.

      • @hark@lemmy.world
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        12 months ago

        Say I buy a product for 4$ and the next day due to deflation I can only sell it for 3$, why would I then go and try to trade said product?

        That $3 is worth as much as that $4 was now because deflation made the value of the dollar go up. So the only change is that “number go up” didn’t happen on a purely psychological level. If your trade provides value then you can trade for more value.