So this strange, this weird, I don't know, it's like the, we introduce a deception into the money,

which will start to lie about the money or how it works. Again, maybe not even intentionally.

Maybe we actually bought into this lie ourselves. Maybe even Keynes believed what he was espousing.

But it leads to broader deception, right?

You have to start lying to people about the nature of hard money and the nature of nominal wages, etc.

So it's a very interesting line, right?

There's like this economic deception, but it leads to political deception and it leads to,

now again, perhaps even self-deception.

So it's just a strange dynamic.

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