If there is one popular myth that is not even questioned, without a doubt, it is this. Practically all public opinion today claims that inflation is the increase in prices. This apparently has no major implications, but it is in fact an extremely dangerous mistake, as it is based on semantic confusion', that is to say, it confuses the meaning of things.
Inflation is actually the increase in the amount of money in circulation that occurs behind the back of the market, and that increase, among other consequences, causes prices to rise.
As can be seen, the cause has been confused with the consequence. And why is this important to clarify? Because otherwise people believe that prices always have to go up, when in fact the normal thing is that the opposite happens: lower prices due to greater technological advances and more production. And when people only see prices go up, they don't realize (or demand explanations) that this is happening because the rulers are printing money behind their backs through the central bank to finance their excesses.
That is why we say that inflation is not something random: it is a policy, it is a decision that leads to the loss of the purchasing power of the currency and, therefore, to general impoverishment.
