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ELI5 in economics, how does inflation work?
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The money supply represents all the available 'working value' in an economy. By increasing the money supply, you can't change the 'real' value of the work, but now that you have more tokens representing the same economy, each token is worth less. 

Let's look at an economy of 10 people, and a money supply of 1000. If you increase the money supply to 2000, then you have inflated the money by 100%. There are still only 10 people, though, and there is still only so much work those 10 people can do. Because of this fact, and because of the eventual distribution of the extra money, the money can only possibly be worth half as much as it was before.