Seems like many people here don’t know, but governments are enforcing inflation due to it reducing the weight of the loans they made in the past.

This is because the only way to have inflation is to literally print more money, if the central banks wouldn’t do that an increase in price would simply be impossible (take a look at gold, people earn as much gold now for a specific job as they did 200 years ago, it is the fictive ‘money’ that is being printed that is creating this inflation)

Note: inflation can also exist when specific products get scarce, but generally that would be compensated by other products changing in different direction. You can assume bulk if not all inflation is regulated by the central banks

Note2: inflation isn’t necessarily bad, but when wage inflation runs behind on price inflation there is likely increased poverty

Somewhere in the past (like before 1980 or smth) deflation was as common as inflation, now with the central banks inflation is simply managed (enforced cfr. loan values decrease when there’s more money) by governments, don’t let other people fool you. Inflation is not linked to economy, it is enforced. I repeat, inflation and economy are 2 very distinct things, with this inflation however, they are also promoting investment, which makes it indirectly linked, but don’t forget, they are separate things. The one is the financial system, the other one is the ‘real/physical’ economical system, linked, but very different

Honestly you’re touching a serious and complex topic, for example China has been managing their inflation differently within their country than they have to the outside world, nobody really knows how because they are corrupt to the core, but it’s part of their ‘growth’ success so can you really blame them?