Comment by makeitdouble

That reminds me of this hilarious interview of a British economist: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65308769

> Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power [...]

You're both totally right that giving people enough money to live might increase the inflation. But that's not an option people are (rightly so) going to be happy with. "Just be miserable" is not a plan.