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I know this is a joke but deflation can be scary too. Basically if it becomes a pattern then consumer spending will crater since people know if they wait their money will be with more in the future. Obviously this effect is less on stuff people have to buy to survive but it's still not desired.
Yeah inflation means noone can afford stuff but there is almost maximum employment
Deflation results in a lot of stores shutting down since noone is buying anything anymore
High inflation can mean noone can afford more expensive stuff, too, and that those shut down - but generally it's a better idea to have a small amount of inflation
It's almost as if capitalism is unsustainable.
That's just because you don't understand economics well enough
See, we print extra money when we create debt, which is a great big brain way to scale a very stable and very logical system. It scales with debt, which is basically wealth, right? And as long as everything always grows, ~~people and enterprises are essentially taxed by the banks for everything that produces the underlying things money represents~~ the economy grows. And everyone knows you either grow or die, that's just basic biology... Why do we need a system that makes money after we're dead?
How else would you do it? Have the government print money? How would they know how much to print? Math? Economics are too complex for math, otherwise the economic models I believe in ~~religiously~~ would make accurate predictions.
The solution is obvious - we just have to capitalism harder.