Came to mind because Mortal Kombat 1 is one of the greediest fighting games I’ve ever seen, with the recent announcement of a $12 Halloween fatality plus all characters + DLC adding up to $118, so I’m assuming it’s because Warner Bros/Netherrealm Studios just wants more bonus money, so I’m genuinely curious how that whole thought process came to be, and if there’s any way for society as a whole to counteract that, or is it simply built into capitalism and we’re stuck with this forever.
Edit: I didn’t buy MK1, just know people who did because I go to tournaments
You could kill all humans beyond a certain number, then execute a human at random whenever a new one is born, unless someone died in the interim. That would solve it. That would be communist than capitalist, though.
Otherwise, number of humans goes up -> Demand for resources goes up. This is true in capitalism, but is equally if not MORE true in communism, since communism is a command economy by consequence of its nature, meaning supply is likely to not increase organically to offset the organic increase in demand.
The only way to offset inflation, which seems to be your main gripe, is to have your currency be a resource with a finite amount, say gold-by-weight, or bitcoins, or standardized uranium rods. So long as more currency can be invented from thin air, inflation will... well... inflate, alongside it. Inflation will still occur due to the population issue above, but it will be much slower.