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What? So, let's say you have a normal increase of goods from one year to the next. But you triple the amount of 'money'. Are you honestly saying that this would not increase inflation significantly?The devaluation of money is typically called "inflation". Inflation is caused by increasing scarcity of goods.
As long as we make sufficient goods and services, then inflation isn't an issue. Creating money in itself isn't the cause of inflation, although if we simply gave away money it would lead to inflation.
I'm not suggesting that we give away money, I'm suggesting that we use money to motivate people to produce goods and services of value.
You have it backwards. The motivation is the goods. The money is the currency used to obtain the goods.
So what exactly are you suggesting? That the government should helicopter money down on the people and then they will naturally run out and buy more things and this will boom the economy and not increase inflation at all? Or lower the value of the currency?