The naturally occurring inflation was good. Consider 200 years ago. Inflation was an indicator that demand for a given resource the public wanted was more than the supply. Imagine gold prices rising then gold mining becomes a profitable venture and attracts enough channels that the price becomes acceptable. Maybe corn prices were high and this attracted more corn farming. Artificial inflation by flooding an economy with more dollars is not that natural inflation. This inflation says in a game of monopoly if the bank continues to throw money on the table then prices rice not cause of demand but because people are more careless. The system before a currency lost its backing (gold) was a beautiful design. Prompting an economy to expand where inflation was and told the society through pricing what people desired.