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The Treasury should just simply issue people cheques.

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The video features a high-profile figure discussing a controversial and relevant economic topic, which naturally drives engagement through debate and interest in the speaker's perspective.

Summary

Elon Musk discusses the relationship between printing money, universal basic income, and inflation. He argues that inflation is a ratio of money to goods and services, suggesting that increased output could allow for more money printing.

Structure

1Elon Musk proposes issuing checks
2Economist challenges the source of revenue
3Musk defines inflation as a ratio
4Musk explains how output affects money supply

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Elon Musk: Printing Money Causes Inflation THE TREASURY SHOULD JUST SIMPLY ISSUE PEOPLE CHEQUES BUT WHERE'S THE REVENUE COMING FROM I'M ENOUGH OF AN ECONOMIST, IF YOU JUST ISSUE CHEQUES YOU'RE GONNA HAVE INFLATION THIS IS LIKE A LOT OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO THINK ABOUT IS THESE THINGS WERE RELEVANT IN THE PAST, THEY WILL NOT BE RELEVANT IN THE FUTURE SO LIKE INFLATION IS SIMPLY THE RATIO OF MONEY TO THE GOODS AND SERVICES SO IF THE GOODS AND SERVICES OUTPUT INCREASES DRAMATICALLY, IF IT INCREASES YOU KNOW 1000%, YOU CAN LITERALLY PRINT OR IN THIS CASE CHANGE THE DATABASE

Transcript

The Treasury should just simply issue people cheques. But where's the revenue coming from? I'm enough of an economist, if you just issue cheques you're going to have inflation. This is like a lot of what we're trying to think about is these things were relevant in the past, they will not be relevant in the future. So like inflation is simply the ratio of money to goods and services. So if the goods and services output increases dramatically, if it increases you know 1000%, you can literally print or in this case change the database.