AmericanMonetaryAssociation.orgIf inflation describes the process of money becoming less valuable, then the solution is to own as little of it as possible, right? Not exactly. The opposite of money is not lack of money but rather debt. When you owe money to someone, you have created a sort of anti-money which exists as the polar opposite to money. This is a bad thing, right? Not always. When the money of a country is being continually devalued by government policies, then the way to create wealth is to collect more of the anti-money, which is debt.