this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
473 points (96.6% liked)

Curated Tumblr

5364 readers
9 users here now

For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.

Here are some OCR tools to assist you in transcribing posts:

Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

though rich people who have their wealth in debt would be hurt

Aren't the big loans interest rates tied to inflation though?

[–] Banana 18 points 4 months ago

Directly. Yes.

[–] explodicle 3 points 4 months ago

They are, but the rate you're offered in the first place includes the loss to inflation. Capitalists aren't going to offer a losing deal.