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Exactly, as much as loans and savings go, they don't physically alter the currently available resources to be consumed, which really has nothing to do with money at all. A society can't just collectively save most of its income for it to be magically available at a later date. It's just suffering deflation while exporting inflation into the future. It's some sort of prisoner's dillema that high-saving countries usually run into.


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