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This would be true if you left your $ in a vault or mattress ,which no one does. It also fails to take into account utility. How does one put a dollar value on a $10-30 GPT-4 pro subscription? Where does this fit in the 'dollar losing value' paradigm?


> How does one put a dollar value on a $10-30 GPT-4 pro subscription?

I’d estimate it at somewhere in the region of $10–$30, personally.


Exactly.

Modest inflation is good because it encourages investment.

Japan suffered fifteen years of deflation starting in the early 1990s. It wasn’t an economy anyone should envy.


Right, a burger and fries is $15 but a ChatGPT pro subscription is only $10, life is good!


2030: “Well a loaf of bread is $50 but a loaf of mostly-sawdust is $10 so we’ll sub that in the basket of goods as equivalent; the median house is $2m but girlfriend chatbots are too cheap to meter. Looks like yet another year of low consumer price inflation!”


I don't know why this example gets presented as absurd all the time. Food is a vital good. If you have a population with a certain calorie demand and don't have enough calories, in 3 months you no longer have the population.

Food: you literally die without it.

ChatGPT: nothing of value is lost.

Look at your iPhone and realize that in any desperate situations, the burger and fries gets more and more valuable.




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