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All fiat provides is the ability to endlessly increase the money supply. If on a gold standard, you could also do that, but the gold would reprice to reflect it. With fiat, our debt pile simply gets bigger, on a gold standard, you wouldn't create debt to increase the supply, you would revalue gold to whatever monetary equilibrium existed at teh time.