The progressive issue many progressives don't seem to like

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60. Wheelbarrow full of marks

You can't assume that every worker was being paid at a rate that was keeping up with inflation, because they weren't. A lot of people had to sell off their belongings to make it in Weimar Germany. A few fortunate souls who had precious metals and/or hard currencies were able to get their wheelbarrows of marks by cashing in those assets.

Recently in Zimbabwe, the inflation was so bad that wages were nowhere near to keeping up with it.

And the first time I went to Mexico, I wanted to buy something from a street vendor. Since I was in Mexico, I wanted to pay in pesos. But the vendor begged me to pay him in dollars, because the pesos "would be worth much less" by the time he could exchange them at a bank.