There is no false mental model more destructive than the idea that prices are supposed increase over time.

All prices should fall if the economy is more productive. Indefinitely. It is literally only because trillions of dollars are counterfeited from nothing every year, and our time, living standards, home affordability, and critical resources get sucked out of the economy to pay for it that things get more expensive.

It is explicitly unnatural and it’s explicitly because we have fake money and a communist central bank at the lowest layer of our economic system.