CPI is just a metric to boil frogs. It’s literally crowd control… The real inflation rate is tied to the rate of monetary expansion (~7-8% annually) If society knew that, we’d have riots Even still, more people are becoming aware of this because energy bills, groceries, restaurants, gas and all of the important things that people buy have skyrocketed The dollar has actually lost ~50% of its buying power since 2019 You can work as hard as you want and AI can give us as many productivity gains as you can think of, but all of that will never outrun the money printer The money printer sets your hours no matter how productive society is Bitcoin does and will fix this With a fixed supply and nowhere to dilute the money, everyone sees those productivity gains in the form of lower prices Deflation is only bad for a system designed to debase its participants Deflation is the natural state of a free market. We deserve prices falling as we get better at doing stuff