Anyone else think helicopter money is overpowered?
All I have to do is set it to max the turn before the election and I win in a landslide.
The problem with it is that lower on the slider you get a 4% boost to GDP and a large reduction in poverty with only a little bit of increase in inflation. Quantitative easing doesn’t give money directly to the people, but the advantage of it is that it is much less likely to cause inflation. That advantage is not depicted in the game, so there’s not much reason to not just use both helicopter money and quantitative easing.
In real life right now we’re not seeing inflation with massive monetary policy stimulus, but I think that’s because we’d be having deflation without that stimulus. In the game there’s nothing that causes deflation, only inflation.