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  • DreamButt@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldHonest
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    23 days ago

    The simplest factor is that more money gets printed. One of the foundational assumptions of market systems is that the more of something there is the less valuable it is (generally speaking). So inflation is just your dollar slowly getting less valuable over time