Governments divide and conquer their citizens.

Taxes on wealth - not directly tied to inflation

Recessions cause inflation

Wages go up with cost of living

Governments get more taxes

Governments benefit from corporate profits.

As corporations earn more money, tax revenue goes up.

Corporations benefit from inflation

Prices go up under "guise of inflation".

Employees get raises - less than the % of inflation.

Corporations keep the excess profit.

They wait until the next recession.

Corporations slowly gain a higher % of the money.

Investing in Housing

Greedy people buy up housing as "investments".

Price of housing increases.

Rent increases due to house owner greed + investing increasing the cost of housing.

Governments benefit from higher property taxes. (via investor income tax & property tax)