Long story short:
- Keynes wrote a fairy tale about inflation raising wages and shortening the work week
- Richard Nixon started inflation as we know it
- Economists worldwide fell into line
- Shockingly, wages didn't go up, the work week didn't shorten, and we now have record-breaking inequality (due to the Cantillon effect).
To this day, people who paid to "learn" the fairy tale insist that inflation is good.