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"With a larger money supply" - does this mean he had more gold mined, which would be non-inflationary, or that he shaved gold coins so that they had less gold content than they were supposed to? If the latter (and we do know that it was the latter), then he engaged in fraud and theft. He was able to "erect many public buildings" because he stole the money to do so from everyone else.
"Common people adored Caesar for his contribution to making more money available" - complete, ahistorical nonsense.
If we could create value by just creating money, then money printing would make us all wealthy and we'd never have to work a day in our lives. Obviously, that is not the case.
This is probably the most retarded, anti-intellectual, backwards-ass non-economics garbage I have ever read.
He did actually bring more money to Rome: He started an illegal war against Gaul, Britain and a few other places, and used the spoils from that to fund his political ambitions.
In general though the caesars did exactly what you said: They adulterated the currency until it was worthless scrap metal. Taxes and public salaries had to be paid in gold, everyone else had to make do with monopoly money. In the end, people just stopped using the currency and were required to pay taxes "in kind" (ie. in goods and services). In order to prevent tax cattle running away trades and farms were made hereditory, so if your father was a shoemaker you were required to be one also by law.
This is the origin of the feudal system which saw the majority of europe's population turned into defacto slaves.
illegal war
What's an illegal war?
As in he had no authority from his government to annex gaul or invade Britain.
A modern equivalent would be an american general being sent to secure the southern border. But instead he invades mexico, declares it a part of America, offers american citizenship to cooperative mexicans then decides to have a go at invading Guatemala too, but gets his ass kicked and has to retreat to mexico.
I demand another history lesson.
Seriously. How the fuck did this Facebook tier meme make the front page of poal?
It's Marxist thinking. "Hey, since money buys things, if we print more money then we can buy more things and be rich!"
Except that money is a ruler and printing more money just shrinks the marks on the ruler. It's still a foot long.
I know absolutely nothing about historically, but there could be policies that increase liquidity bringing more people into the market.
But it's from the prestigious source.. smokelol23 on Facebook?
Right.
Sounds as though he appointed himself as the Federal Reserve of his time.
Sucks about the spoon, I like having a spoon.
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