Here's what I was wondering today.
After watching the famous video about the awful wealth inequality in the United States:
https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM I started wondering: is it the wealth
inequality that's the problem or the
velocity of the wealth inequality? The rich aren't just getting richer; they are getting richer
faster and all new money that is being created is funnelled to their coffers. Since the new money that is being created never stops, there is never time for any of this money (or incentive) to slosh down to the lower classes, either in the form of high taxes or economic development.
Let's say we had the exact same situation as the U.S. Dollar today bundled up in Monero (in reality it might even be worse considering that half of all Monero is already mined:)
Now what would happen if there were a tight limit on how many new US Dollars could be created a year? What other government policies might influence the "slosh" of money in a system? Money reflects a social liquid that is exchanged between humans, and the big problems only happen when the faucet is turned on and left on. Do you think wealth inequality would *stay* bad or would slowly grow more idea as time went on in a currency with very limited inflation? Is the nature of Monero: equal access, privacy, and strict limits on creation going to automatically solve the run away debt and inflation problems that we are facing currently?