Inflation is not a natural law. Business leaders make a decision to raise prices. Prices don't automatically go up. If you say 'but that's what the market bears

Inflation is not a natural law. Business leaders make a decision to raise prices. Prices don't automatically go up. If you say 'but that's what the market bears', then I will ask, when was the last time you really interacted with a market? You go to work, which often doesn't have any market elements (most companies are command control economies, weird right?). You go to a store, which is a distribution center, not a market. Markets are actually very rarely interacted with where the buyer and the seller negotiate a spot price. In fact, most people don't like markets. Markets are never something a society chooses without coercion. Anthropologists have never found a market economy that didn't involve conquest. Even in the Cozy Games, it's about collecting things and customization, the market aspect is never really that liked. You can get rid of it and still have a cozy game.