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Partly true, but we're also talking hypothetical here, as in "why don't we just print the basic income" -- "bread would get pricier" -- "in a normal national currency, yes very quickly, but in a global reserve currency, with substantial delay".

Interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma



The price of break can start going up even before money is printed. World reserve currency status is due to the fact that historically US Dollar was a very safe and reliable storage of wealth. As soon as talks of printing more money start circulating, people outside of US will start selling USD and buying EUR/Chinese Yuan/Bitcoins/local currency. Due to that, US Dollar exhchange rate can collapse and price of bread will definitely go up.

There is some flexibility - trust in USD is still very strong and US can print quite a bit before negative cycle kicks in but it defintely could not print as much as needed to make everyone rich.




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