So I'm really interested in helping people understand the current situation with inflation,

something you hear a lot, especially from conservative corners. This is all a product of

giving the pearls too much money during the pandemic and now they're spending lavishly and

that's causing inflation or whatever. They want to put the onus on the people. Can you tell us

what's really causing inflation and how corporations who aren't directly impacted by inflation

are using this as an opportunity to price gouge the American consumer? I want to jump in with

a follow up on that if we have time for this. So as you finish talking about inflation,

I'm going to again cite the Pat Nikes and they state that once you get hit a certain level of

inflation, the people will actually want to carry their form of wealth in commodities rather than

money and that this carrying of wealth and commodities rather than money is perhaps the biggest

risk to capitalism as a system in the short term. So as you finish up answering Brett's question,

I would just be curious as to your thoughts on that theory that's put forth by the Pat Nikes.

All right, let me do it this way. Let's assume for the moment that we have a government that

has given the working class a lot of money, the way the United States government boosted on

employment payments for a bunch of months during the worst of the pandemic, which is what a lot of

these conservative sites and the checks that were mailed out to Americans etc. So now we have a

public with much more money in their pocket than they had before because the government gave it to

okay. Now these people, everybody knows that this is going on, now these people put on their shirts

and pants and march directly to the nearest mall, they're going to spend the extra money that they

got. Now let's follow. What is the storekeeper, the owner operator, the employer of the

personnel at the store, what is his or her situation? I'm going to use the pronoun,

the male pronoun, but I understand the problems with doing so just for speed of communication.

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