Some of the most interesting research on inflation has been done in MMORPG's lately. Since all the currency is digital there is a strong inflation problem and t

Some of the most interesting research on inflation has been done in MMORPG's lately. Since all the currency is digital there is a strong inflation problem and the solution has been largely to have a technique called "Gold Sinks" where they create very expensive items to use the currency for thus taking a large chunk of it out of circulation. For some who believe that since we've shifted to mostly digital currencies now (since banks just shift numbers in a database to increase or decrease what's in an account most of the time) they could argue that the mechanics of paying taxes is to actually act as a gold sink instead of actually shifting money to government (since they just give themselves whatever unlimited money anyway). I'm not sure what to believe about this, but the deeper I look the more true it's becoming I think. Especially since money isn't so much being printed as just created in a database somewhere.