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Don't hyperinflation events lead to civil unrest ?
by asah 5y ago
Don't hyperinflation events lead to civil unrest ?
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoHyperinflation usually leads to not-having-stuff, eventually being hungry, and hunger leads to unrest. Source: Been in the balkans in the 1990s
- sokoloff 5y agoHyperinflation events basically don’t happen in a healthy economy, so it’s hard to say whether they’re just a waypoint on the road to unrest or the cause. (I tend to think they’re the former, that they’re the agonal breathing of a society: often associated with imminent death but not the cause of it.)
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y agoHow many _major_ civil unrests end up being a bad thing for the many? I know a few that started revolution that changed our societies for the best.
- sokoloff 5y agoIt seems crucially important to ask this of people who lived through them (or from reading their first person accounts) rather than asking people who read about them in history books or watched them on TV. What’s going on in the Gaza Strip for example does not evoke a sense of “wow, that doesn’t look bad at all” in me.
- p_l 5y agoI wouldn't call what happens in occupied territory to be internal civil unrest though.