How likely do you think governments/central banks would keep away from inflating the currency they have complete control over, when its normally in their best interest to print currency?
I haven't read your entire reply, but the top link has a graph relating CPI with M2 if I'm not mistaken. Is'nt CPI a terrible measurement since it uses units that change constantly. Bit like measuring distance with a meter stick that changes in length everyday.
Overconsumption sounds more like an engineering problem the anything else. The problem here is that birth rates are going to continue to have 20 year lows. Thats tragic.
If its fair use to find stats on a book/corpus of text, isn't it also fair use to run a transformer/something similar, since really its just predicting/modelling what that piece of text would output next, given context?