How do you smart people accept the money printer?

6 points by Printerisreal 265 days ago | 5 comments

It's 2025 and money printer with $trillions printed exist. Governments increase the debt limits and get free printed fiat money for it. Amounts are in $trillions. How do you accept this fact and still just live normally like money or debt is limited things? they make it for free and investment banks can make it for free too?

You and I work for it but them and their friends with $$$$ make extra because they own assets and this all helps them. How is this reality in the world in 2025??

toomuchtodo 265 days ago |

Understand rules. Operate according to said rules. Bend or break rules based on calculated risks. Update mental model when rules change. One needs not like or enjoy the system they are forced to operate within to optimize for it. Change what you can, ignore what you cannot. You only have to live with it for so long. Make the best of it.

HankStallone 265 days ago |

That's been the reality for longer than I've been alive. Nothing new about it in 2025 except that at some point we went from billions to trillions, but it's been unsustainable for decades.

Basically, we're all used to it. Most of us probably had a moment when we realized how screwed the system was and expected it to crash soon. Mine was in the 90s when personal bankruptcies were climbing fast. But they've managed to kick the can down the road so many times that complaining about it seems quaint now.

pavel_lishin 265 days ago |

Do you have a proposal, or shall I go kill myself to avoid the cognitive dissonance?

wmf 265 days ago | |

Usually these people want the gold standard or more recently a Bitcoin standard.

wmf 265 days ago |

I own assets. Why don't you?