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MattDamonSpaceyesterday at 9:36 PM3 repliesview on HN

Why are “demand and supply driven price increases” considered inflationary?

Isn’t it just… prices?


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pkulakyesterday at 10:37 PM

Prices rising is inflation.

odo1242yesterday at 10:30 PM

Any price increase can be considered inflationary. They usually don’t come down by all that much

applfanboysbgonyesterday at 9:48 PM

It's inflationary because this demand is backed by Monopoly money. OpenAI is promising to buy half the global supply of RAM with money they don't actually have, pricing out people who would like to make purchases with real money and not $1 trillion in debt.