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by daenz 5102 days ago
This is what I thought of too when I read the wikipedia page for "Demurrage". Here's what's referenced there:

> The major central banks' post-WWII policy of steady monetary inflation as proposed by Keynes was influenced by Gesell's idea of demurrage on currency,[2] but used inflation of the money supply rather than fees to effect the goal of increasing the velocity of money and expanding the economy.