I just talked to a 17 year old intern at my firm about this for about an hour and reassured him that he is now in the top 1% of the population on this subject.

“will prices just forever go up?”

NPC mocks me when I say "why don't they just print the money"

Money printing is the definition of inflation.

You're referring to inflation causing prices of goods & services to increase.

Ya dumbcunt.