Governments and central banks can and do make it a lot better by being able to print money and run social welfare programs off them, apart from taxation and oth

Governments and central banks can and do make it a lot better by being able to print money and run social welfare programs off them, apart from taxation and other revenue. That's the reason that even gold producing countries have moved off the gold standard. Runaway deflation is as scary and catastrophic as runaway inflation seen in Zimbabwe.