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The Magic Curtain of Inflation
We already engineer food consumption choices for poor people via SNAP and restrict what they can buy. So if you were going to create a discounted basket of goods, we already sort of- Yeah, we already subsidized corn and all of these other things. That brings down the price. And another solution to Greatflation is that if you talk about it and people believe it's happening, then it kind of starts to go away because companies can't get away with raising their prices anymore.
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