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The digital version of goods indirectly does cause inflation.

When you have a surge of users and you got more servers in aws, EC2 prices increase for the on-demand instances , aws buys more servers , the more customers it gets , which means more metal excavation , more semiconductors , more minerals , more trucks to move these things , more fuel to move the trucks , it goes on and on.

Also money gets turned into profit , which is then paid to employees , executives , founders.

Who then go on to pay into other items that are non digital (houses , cars , premium cereals lol), which then do cause inflation.

Until all goods are digital , every digital product still indirectly causes inflation using its non digital items , because all of em are transactions between humans.

And all goods can never be digital , because you still need non digital items to run the digital goods on.

So inflation continues.




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