I have the theory that if you give money to everybody, prices will go up because sellers will figure they can increase the price of everything without it negatively affecting sales, since every buyer simply has more money to spare, no excuses.
That's how monopoly markets work. But if you're a grocery store and you realize everybody now has $4 more in their pockets, you can't start charging $5 for an apple when the store across the street is still charging $1.
If you keep the same price, but everyone is charging 4x as much, you are losing, because everyone else needs 4x less customers to make the same profit as you, not to mention the work involved.
You'll run out of supply soon enough, too.
If I'm buying apples wholesale for $.50 and selling them retail for $1, how many apples does it take for me to go out of business?
> You'll run out of supply soon enough, too.
Are people now eating more apples than farmers can grow?