I think both these purposes are served with zero or deflation. As a saver, I don't like my dollars being depreciated and people on fixed income also don't like that. And as someone who wants to promote investments, a lower deflation rate reduces my minimum expected return since it doesn't have to clear some inflation hurdle rate. And for consumption, like I mentioned in my original post, the hottest selling items are rapidly depreciating, so I don't think it would negatively effect consumption. So the only one the inflationary system works for are the politicians that use money printing as a backdoor form of taxation