Money gets created in the USD economy all the time, whether by invented debt, cash printing, or the issuance of bonds. Does that money actually represent wealth? Does the USD economy actually contribute anything of value?
So let’s say you wanted to permanently remove value from the USD economy for some reason. What’s the most effective and impactful way to “burn money?” Not spend it. Not acquire it. Destroy it, with the goal of taking that value out of the economy.
Burning/ shredding physical cash seems really inefficient. Maybe the answer lies in devaluing real estate?
This is all hypothetical so assume whatever resources or labor you want.
Some of the things that you have in your post don’t make much sense to me, then, since you’re talking about the money supply in at least part of it: “Money gets created in the USD economy all the time, whether by invented debt, cash printing, or the issuance of bonds.”
I’m not sure if it’s really coherent to aim to “destroy value” in the “USD economy”.
If you want to reduce the size of the US GDP — though that’d be linked to the US, rather than the US dollar — you could reduce that by reducing economic activity. Like, say everyone in the US works four days instead of five, and then there’d be less economic activity, and that would cause the GDP to decline.