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Who could have forseen the woes of capitalism? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 9 months ago by balderdash9@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Historical note: $1million in his time is $36.5m today

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wow, that really put it in perspective. How far we have let greed get the better of ourselves. Where are the guardrails to prevent this?

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Inflationary currency needs and expects this. Just how it works.