It is actually Inflation that is killing your buying power and not just the Banks, printing all that toilet paper money.
The Reserve Banks have to juggle the local economy to create a perception that the economy are growing, because it attracts foreign investments and it also keeps them in power, if they can keep the voters happy.
The continuous printing of money are based on a complex system of demand for liquidity and economic stimulus to boost the local commerce and trade. Luckily for us, Satoshi fixed the total coin cap, so we know that nobody can manipulate the supply of tokens. We also know that the whole system is built on scarcity, so the coins
should increase in value over time, as less coins are mined and demand increase.
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I can agree it’s some sort of inflation, the bank is always secretive with every decision they made, their account book is full of magical numbers and magical names that’s fill up the their expense, but that’s not the point, nobody in their right mind will dedicated their energy to go through all the way into the hidden story what bank is brewing up, and Julian Assange and the team without condition pick up the task, without their contribution, we will all be in the cloud and fight each other over everything, and the same goes to satoshi too, without their initiative in 2008, I’m sure the world might end up in fire.
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There is a great story called "I want the earth plus 5% more" by Larry Hannigan which explains this situation better than anyone else I have ever seen with a bit of futuristic but becoming more and more reality future part involved as well. Basically banks and the federal reserves are friends and they are doing this to get richer and richer everyday in spite of the world not getting any richer at all.
You may think that humanity is richer nowadays compared to 2000 years ago thanks to more fair living and no slavery (sort of) and better technological advancements and all that but believe me those banks and reserves are working to make sure that gap once again opens wide enough that we may be considered slaves right now, 90%+ of the world would die if they do not have any money at all for over 1 year, collective poverty results with death (look at Venezuela) so they are just making sure we have juuuust enough to not rebel or die.
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We are not richer by monetarily means, but I can assured you by literacy rate, I see a world a change in a time frame as short as a decade, I believe it’s partly thank to technological advancement, smartphone is helping everybody greatly on learning curve, they can see the hidden danger of the real world at the tips of the finger, and they’re the youngest people who learn quickly and avoid the same mistakes made by the ancestor, the saying goes by “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
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