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Inflation is a type is redistribution... The first receivers of the new money benefit at the expense of the last receivers. IE banks, Government contractors, at the expense of fixed income retirees, wage earners, or anyone else in the middle lower class. Asset holding classes are able to survive as a result of owning real property which is a hedge against inflation... It's a basic tax on saving and it subsizes the debters as they pay back debt with dollars in the future which are cheaper... It inherently builds leveage into the system... It is a type of StAtism in which the Government steals your value by diluting the population ....it really is villainous. We have seen here in the US the outright bail out of companies with tax/inflate at the expense of the purchasing power of the masses.. it's outright fraud to subsidize poor business practices with other people's money. Murray Rothbard went into detail how bad this is for economy in the long run. But As one jerk off economist said. In the long run we are all dead.
You have fallen for a textbook flaw in economic thinking. Inflation is actually the increase in the overall price of a basket of goods from one period of time to another. This is measured by an index, usually laspeyres or paasche index. The causation of the inflation may redistribute money but inflation itself does not, it is more of an outcome than a cause.
This seems to the failing in your thinking throughout this thread, confusing the type or form that something falls into. For example the method or mechanism used to control inflation is something else too and although one method has certain side effects other methods do not. You seem to have put everything into the title of inflation or conssequence.
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