Anymore than the higher prices and higher salaries? Technology (tool making) is natural process to get more for less. Money printing is the elite’s way to counteract the government’s attempt to redistribute the unequal gains from what technology produces. Government can’t let a few salaries rise “at the expense” of less efficient producers, so they tax and redistribute as much as possible, and inflate the rest, which protects the elites wealth.

It takes some serious brainwashing to make people believe that lower prices (even for labor) are a bad thing. There should be just as much of a desire to a have higher purchasing power as a higher salary.

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so in a bitcoin standard prices would fall on average, but it wouldn't be linear, right?

like if some economy sector is experimenting productivity growth then prices would fall for those products, but they would stay the same on other sectors, all else equal

Prices would fall in a competitive market. If there's some barrier to market entry, then the one with the productivity gain just retains more purchasing power relative to the rest of the economy.