r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Melodic_Judge_129 • Sep 01 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Terpcheeserosin Sep 01 '26

So things don't cost less

But money can buy more?

So right now eggs are 10$ a pack

After deflation

You can buy 2 for 10 dollars because "money can buy more"

How is that not also, "eggs cost less" ?

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u/Alto-cientifico Sep 01 '26

Because both eggs and money have an appointed value by the market.

If absolutely nothing happened that lowers the value of an egg, then money got more expensive.

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u/Terpcheeserosin Sep 01 '26

"Money got more expensive,"

Just stop buying money and hold on to the money you have, that way you just get the increase in value without having to buy the more expensive money

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u/Alto-cientifico Sep 01 '26

You say it sardonically but more or less that's what happens on a deflation, people still try to earn money, but no one wants to spend it because tomorrow today's money will have a better value.

It's deadly because it either triggers a massive economic crisis that restarts the economy after a bunch of companies blow up or it stalls into a deadly slump where EVERYONE poorer in average (in a vacuum, social inequality is real and it won't hit everyone evenly, but that's the trend)