The Perils of Abundant Currency

A Minecraft village discovers infinite emeralds and within days their entire economy collapses.

Here's why. When emeralds were rare, a loaf of bread cost one emerald.

But once everyone had thousands, villagers started demanding ten emeralds, then fifty,

then hundreds for the same bread. The emeralds didn't lose their shine, they lost their

scarcity. This is exactly how real inflation works. When too much currency

floods an economy, each unit becomes less valuable. Your money doesn't change,

but what it can buy does. Scarcity creates value, abundance destroys

it.