Anyway, totally not the point of your post

This comment is actually very much on topic.
Banks are hiding the money they are stealing by syphoning gains away from deflationary tech. The reason these things are not getting cheaper is because they are stealing it all using the convoluted mechanics of a fractional reserve and leveraged derivatives.

If Bitcoin gets big and stable enough to the point where we can actually measure value with it (unit-of-account) then it will become blatantly obvious what's been going on all these decades. The central banking system steals just enough to maintain maximum profitability. If they steal too much or get too greedy on leverage the system collapses and everyone loses.