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>The wealthy will have their money in assets that may benefit from inflation (stock market up 30+% since pre-covid seem a little odd to anyone else?).

Who's selling that stock if the rich are buying it? From what I can tell it's mostly companies issuing new stock and leaving the money in their bank account and inflation is eating away at that money. Here is the thing, given a high enough inflation rate that money will be used to hire people. If you want to stick it to the poor that is an extremely ineffective way to do it.




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