These statements about inflation drivers are surprising (to some) and highly relevant because they counter corporate and conservative propaganda.
We now know that government assistance isn't the main villain in the brutal inflation spikes of the last few years, and we need voters to understand that too.
If that's what you wanted to do, you should have done that. A single glib sentence with no content in it isn't enough to "provoke further reflection on causation".
So it may be an uninteresting or unhelpful way to put it, but I think he accurately summarizes how many people who have studied economics would think about it.
OK, but again: this is not the narrative that is being pushed by corporations and conservatives. You can say, "Oh, hey, this is just textbook economics," but the vast majority of people have never studied one sentence of economics and are being actively lied to.
Most center-left economists are pretty dismissive of the idea that inflation is a corporate-profits-driven phenomenon too.
This is terribly wrong since government spending is directly associated to money printing, and you know what? That causes inflation.
You already know that since that’s basic economics, but simply your content is 100% politically biased therefore even more wrong than before.