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That sounds like "post hoc ergo propter hoc" to me

• kolbe 9y ago
  And you have a perfect method of attributing causality in the social sciences? If this monetary crisis wasn't used as a tool to fuel antisemitism in Germany, I will eat my shoe.
  • openasocket 9y ago
    You could at least provide some evidence and supporting examples. Your comment just said that one followed the other. I'm criticizing your argument, not your conclusion (though I do think your conclusion is a bit of a stretch, but that gets into a whole other argument about what it really means for one event to cause another, is the Arch Duke's driver getting lost REALLY the cause of WWI or would it have happened anyway due to some other reason a few months later because Europe was such a powder keg, yadda yadda yadda).
    • andruby 9y ago
      I didn't dive into this deeper, but that's at least how it was being thought at school here in Belgium (~year 2000). Summarized from memory: At the end of the 1st world war, Germany was given a huge fine. The Deutsche Mark, deliberatly or not, devalued a lot. The large recession and poverty gave the opportunity for facism and the Nazi party to gain popularity. After the 2nd world war the allied forces realized that giving Germany a huge fine had been a mistake, and thus they didn't repeat that after the 2nd world war.
  • mdemare 9y ago
    During the period Hitler came to power, there was deflation, not inflation. Inflation means your saving go to zero. Deflation means your mortgage and mortgage payments stay constant, while your salary and the price of your home falls by X% per year.
    • dnautics 9y ago
      how does your salary fall during deflation?