Norgur ,
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That's... Not what inflation is.
You have been watching half-arsed videos on YouTube by people who never really learned a single thing about economy, haven't you?

Inflation is the devaluation of money which happens because the pool of money constantly grows (super oversimplified here), which it has to because otherwise, we'd face a deflation because the money pool would constantly shrink due to savings and such. Deflations can wreak havoc with economies and cause great misery all around. The "great depression" was a deflation. Look up how that turned out. That's what the constant inflation rates of around 3% are meant to prevent.

There is no cabal of businessmen deciding to raise prices and seoress wages and then selling that as "inflation".

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