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Pot calling the kettle black. You're saying the commenter is wrong, without presenting any substantive arguments or "empirical evidence" otherwise.

"Do your homework" is not a useful comment, b/c you can easily find eco-chambers re-enforce any point you want on the internet. Instead of trying to engage in conversation, you're just pushing them further into their own ecochamber.

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You can’t reason someone out of a viewpoint they didn’t reason themselves into.

There’s no economic argument to be had with someone that says monetary policy is theft.

If the government prints itself double the money supply, it has effectively made every dollar held by everyone else half as valuable.

I'm not making a value statement as to whether this is good or bad, particularly at low levels, but the fact of the matter is that if you pay for debt with money printing your are in practice taking that value from people who hold cash-denominated (ie. cash, debt etc) non-inflation-protected assets.

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