Prices of things are becoming absolutely insane. $800+ rent, $30,000 cars, $10 sub sandwiches, etc. It would be nice to do a 3/1 split and cut everything by 2/3. Then we would have $266 rent, $10,000 cars, and $3.33 sub sandwiches. Wages, debts, everything would drop to 1/3 what they are now. It would also make coins useful again since a vending machine soda would be 2 quarters again.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipOP
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    10 months ago

    True, but as the national debt grows, everything else grows with it, and inflation, and eventually rent would be $10,000 a month.

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      10 months ago

      Sorry, I don’t think I follow as to why that’s bad. If I pay, say, $1,000 in rent and earn $3,000 a month, it’s the same thing as if I paid $10,000 in rent and made $30,000 a month.

      While I can see how those numbers could be reduced into smaller numbers easily, I’m not sure I understand why that is beneficial. My material conditions don’t change.

      How does the national debt factor into that?

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        10 months ago

        Primarily, just that the numbers are unnecessarily large and could be factored down to more manageable numbers.