Thread by @ibn_alJad

The Cantillon effect applies to gold, which points to the importance of an economy based upon multiple commodity currencies rather than a single currency, whether fiat or gold.

If a new gold mine is discovered somewhere, the influx of newly mined gold into the market...

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...will drive up prices, but before it does, the recipients of the newly mined gold will have a window of opportunity to buy things up at cheap prices before inflation kicks in.

The presence of multiple commodity currencies like livestock, grains, and spices protects...

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...the economy from this effect being too pronounced.

This dynamic has a parallel in traditional vs. modern agriculture. In the past, farmers would produce multiple crops, and even multiple varieties of a single crop. This way, if one crop was affected by a blight or...

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...pest and lost, there would be other resistant crops to help the people make it through the winter.

In the modern era, this method has been replaced with toxic pesticides, fungicides, and genetically modified crops. This enables production on a massive scale...

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...but the food makes the people sick, and also degrades and depletes the soil. In other word, trading a greater profit in the short term for a much greater harm in the long term.

This is visible in almost everything the kuffar do...

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...and the culmination of all this, of course, is the fact that they have traded the akhira for the dunya.

The laws of nature push the people towards sharia; unsustainable monetary systems are just one example of this.

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