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“How does inflation act as a tax on capital investment?”
Buffett treats inflation not merely as a rising price index, but as a “gigantic corporate tapeworm”[1] that consumes investment capital regardless of reported earnings. He demonstrates that capital-heavy enterprises cannot generate genuine economic gains under sustained monetary depreciation because standard depreciation allowances perpetually lag real replacement costs.
Four years earlier, in Fortune, he had already framed inflation as a tax — one that consumes capital outright, forcing a business to reinvest ever-larger sums simply to stand still.[2] As a result, only businesses commanding pricing flexibility and modest capital needs survive without devouring their own balance sheets.[3]
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