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The Nature of Property | The Stephan Kinsella Series | Episode 2 (WiM216)

The "What is Money?" Show

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Is Inflation a Type of Aggression?

I often say inflation is theft for that very reason you gave t but so the inflation example o the theft is, or the aggression is. I meank it's just from the government's point of view, they're a criminal. They don't care where they commit the aggression. If there's physical, hard money like gold and silver, then when the king forces you to turn some of it in, that's actually theft. Or if they clip the coins, that's theft. The aggression with inflation is the government monopolize eba system that lets them create an effect that's similar to a, a, similar to actual theft.

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