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If a word has been "misused for decades", its definition has changed. It's a fool's errand to try to claim the original definition is the "right" or "only" def
by try_the_bass 2y ago
If a word has been "misused for decades", its definition has changed.
It's a fool's errand to try to claim the original definition is the "right" or "only" definition at that point.
You've lost this semantic battle against the world, and it's honestly pretty exhausting to see you wasting effort trying to continue fighting a lost cause.
- _heimdall 2y agoSure, we could always make a different term for monetary inflation and avoid the ambiguity with the new definition but that doesn't fix the underlying point. Monetary inflation is an important concept that is now almost entirely ignored. An increase in the cost of goods can be interesting, but its a second or third order effect of an extremely complicated system. Price changes are meaningless without context and extremely difficult to understand with context. Money debasement, or inflation, is easy to understand and is a primary input to the system rather than a downstream effect.
- try_the_bass 2y agoGiven that your original point was that someone used the wrong word, this feels like you're moving the goalposts now.