A country with the ability to borrow from its populace en masse and without consent will undoubtedly win in attrition against a country on a hard money standard...holding everything else constant.
That seems to me how it would play out, too. The counter-argument I can imagine is that the only way that a country in the modern world could get on a btc / hard money standard again would be if all the other countries also were. Put differently, maybe "all else equal" is not a reasonable axiom to assume, even for a thought experiment.
But the burden of proof -- or of really convincing argumentation -- needs to be on the people talking about a reality other than the one we're in now.
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