>>7260937>>7261092Stable but slow inflation is good for offsetting the issues that deflation causes if left to run rampant, like economic stagnation as the nation refuses to buy goods and services under the expectation that it will be cheaper to wait for the price to drop even more, which leads to reduced demand, which leads to reduced output, which starts a tantrum spiral of economic consequences, ala the Great Depression.
But that's only if it's matched by rising wages. But like
>>7260999 said, wages aren't rising, they're stagnant, and in that environment, even slow inflationary policy is damaging. The economy needs to be prodded and kept going with carrots and sticks on both the producer side and the consumer side, or else the scales will inevitably fuck up and slide to either rampant inflationary markets, which causes a consumer-side tantrum spiral, or rampant deflationary markets, which causes a producer-side tantrum spiral.
All this is to say, rising wages and slowly rising inflation should be encouraged by the entities which control the economy so that I can afford to one day have sex with my oshi's Simulacrum.