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by JumpCrisscross 526 days ago
> Central banks finally emerged to manage money supply and target a healthy inflation rate

Platforms like TikTok--or more accurately, their algorithms--as ersatz central banks of attention is a fascinating concept.

> we are probably in a hyperinflationary state. As content keeps exploding

More content chasing limited attention means the content's value is inflating. Sure enough, we see a secular decline in ad prices from 2010 to 2020 [1]. (They have increased since 2020.)

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU365