[batshibstein]

Are you really talking about the couple thousand dollars that people received during the pandemic? In most of the country that might have paid your rent for a month or a few weeks of groceries or if you're fortunate maybe one luxury good.

[pauldenton]

It's more like when you flatten production, but steady consumption, by having people get paid for work without producing anything, you produce a mismatch between the dollars and the goods they are chasing that results in Inflation. If you drop money out of helicopters and people spend that money instead of working you get inflation