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   "text": "Increasing the commercial benefits attached to a token heightens the aggregate demand for that token's given supply, which is why benefit adjustment functions as a quasi-fiscal policy tool.",
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   "text": "Commercial benefits attached to a token issuance can offset depreciated supply scarcity, meaning the dilutive effects of a large supply of the token in circulation.",
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   "text": "Adjusting the commercial benefits of a token issuance lets the issuer avoid more drastic monetary interventions such as emergency sales, building token reserves, or changing the token supply in circulation.",
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   "text": "Combining quasi-fiscal policy, increasing benefits attached to tokens, with monetary policy, increasing supply in circulation, may or may not have an effect on the market price of the tokens.",
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   "text": "Fiscal stimulus cannot restore employment that has been structurally eliminated by autonomous agents able to perform the same tasks at zero marginal cost, so the Keynesian transmission mechanism from aggregate demand to employment dissolves.",
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