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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 782730, member: 68&quot;]Some people CLAIM that our carbon footprint will be the end of the world.&nbsp; They CLAIM that they want to reduce waste and consumption.&nbsp; They CLAIM they want stability and growth.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What could possibly foster such goals more than money which not only gains interest when it&#039;s saved but even gains a little value.&nbsp; With more money set aside there is more capital to fund more innovation.&nbsp; Stability of the economic system is assured since there&#039;s no reason to shift money around and if fundamentals turn sour people have the resources to make it through. </p><p><br /></p><p>Inflation is never good even in the tiniest amounts except for the politicians who are buying votes.&nbsp; It might be true that at low levels it&#039;s not very harmful though.&nbsp; Inflation tends to eradicate the driftwood and hindmost in an economy.&nbsp; It makes the buggy whip manufacturers go out of business a few years earlier.&nbsp; But what would get rid of buggy whip manufacterers faster than increased innovation made possible by increased capital flows?&nbsp;&nbsp; Rather than wiping out older people on fixed incomes a little increase in the value of money would let them maintain their standard of living longer.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Efficiency gains are large enough that the government can still make money just by issuing more in most years.&nbsp; This would encourage government to seek efficiency gains everywhere since they could take large percentages of the improvements.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a shame there&#039;s no commodity that would make an ideal moneyt since ideally money would be based on a commodity.&nbsp; I&#039;ve toyed with the idea of wheat based money and such things but they are all subject to the same failures that would lead to very similar disasters.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see any alternative but to using all commodities simultaneously as the basis of currency.&nbsp; Of course it&#039;s impossible to use all commodities so the solution is using the GDP which is really closely correlated with the combined value of all real assets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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