And so you get in this weird situation as a citizen, as you said, where it's either, okay, we print the money,

which is to say let's steal from all the savers, right? Let's let the government tap into the

savings of all of society through inflation and we go and fight this war. Or if we don't,

then we risk being conquered by a nation that does.

So all of a sudden, it seems like it degenerates humanity to kind of like the worst.

We get defined by the worst in us when we have this option to print money.

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