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It's all about the money supply. The devalued our money so workers think they were making more to avoid a communist revolution.

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[–] Anticorp 7 points 5 months ago

Gold used to be directly tied to our currency, but you can't just print more money when it's based off a gold standard, and the government didn't like that, so they changed the standard.