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by _rebocador_ 1718 days ago
From my pov, seems like the top 1% has wealth in stock, company valuation, which is only done by the middle class and lower class, buying stock. So everything they have is handed to them by the ones who buy the stock.

Quit doing it.

Why do people buy so much stock, is that because they want to invest in companies? sure there are cases of that, but most importantly they don't want to see their money devalue with the inflation caused by gov policies.

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Correlation != Causation. There are many reasons for this that have very little to do with the Gold Standard. I would suggest that technology itself has caused much if not most of this, as has the destruction of Unions, deregulation, and yes government corruption. But I've yet to hear a plausible explanation for how the Gold Standard somehow maintained wages in line with GDP. The only somewhat plausible reason I see here is that a free currency encouraged a move to assets, which protected the rich against inflation somewhat better than the rest.
my first comment has a plausible explanation.