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by tw8f969ae5b6f4 2016 days ago
> so saying anything is unworkable because the rich can partially game it is defeatism

Thankfully I wasn't saying that. I was disagreeing with your claim that "[inflation] hurts you in direct proportion to how well off you are", arguing instead that:

1. inflation benefits those earlier in the flow of new money, and

2. at present, that new money enters the economy via banks, etc.

> If we use UBI to inflate the currency...

Indeed, this depends on #1 above: change how new money enters and propagates through the economy and you change the wealth transfer effects.