what makes hacker news appealing is the very few reddit style, low effort comments. You should explain your viewpoint instead of this cringy /s business, everyone would be richer for it

You mistook the /s for an attack on the comment above it, when it was actually a completion of my own grandparent comment. There was not inflation, even when some inflation was desired, after an almost inconceivable amount of money printing.

I know it's my own fault for thinking of Poe's Law as a target rather than a pitfall. Sadly, for me satire/sarcasm isn't good unless the target of it sometimes can't tell that it is satire. It's evidence that I've treated them fairly.

edit: note that cm2187 understood that, and formulated a direct, thoughtful reply.

edit: also note (although you can't see it) that after I explained the "/s" wasn't an attack but an affirmation of the reply that told the truth about hyperinflation, that it wasn't a goldbugging Libertarian smirk, the upvotes started disappearing. Poe achieved.

To be dead honest, and not trying to insult anyone, in real life when I assert two contradictory things within two short sentences about any subject, the people who are listening to me who agree with those sentences immediately start to make their case to me why those two statements aren't contradictory.

It's only on the internet where I can assume that people will show up who really think that I believe that stubbornly low <2% inflation is hyperinflation, and attempt to excoriate or support me.