I started the year with $12,720 in cash and no car.
I ended the year with the car (and title) and no cash. Plus, I got to drive it for a year.
I didn't have any promissory note at the beginning of the year. I don't have any promissory note at the end of the year.
Show me what I had at the beginning of the year that I was robbed of by the end of the year.
Let me take a crack at this just as an experiment to see if I understand what Elo is saying.
The bank took your note and listed it as an asset, like you had made a deposit instead of a liability like you had taken a loan.
Then they loaned that money to someone else even though they didn't have it, just your promise to pay it back so they would have it in theory somewhere down the line.
Then, they took the loan to the guy they loaned the money to that they didn't have and listed it as an asset, and loaned that money that they didn't have to another guy.
And listed that loan as an asset, then they loaned............
So on and so forth down the line.
So that 12,000 dollar loan you got (if you got one) became, like, 120,000 dollars that got loaned out and that is inflation.
So the robbed part comes from that inflation, if 12,000 can become 120,000 than the 120,000 in cash in your matress is becoming 12,000.
At some point.
I think that's what Elo is saying but I have no doubt that I have butcherd it.
And a question, if we go on a gold standard aren't gold miners printing money?
Doesn't a big gold find make the money worth less?
And now that we use gold as a manufacturing comodity (cause it's in our lap tops and printer cartriges) and it's going to the landfill doesn't that loss of gold deflate the currency?
If we were on a gold standard then wouldn't the gold production have to exactly match the economy growth? Or our currency would fluctuate based on gold production?
OR
If we wanted to "freeze" our currency against a certain amount of "money gold" and the economy grew then wouldn't a penny eventualy become a dollar?
I don't really understand these things as "money" is a man made concept and like most man made concepts has flaws and is based on emotion in great part.