If women exited the work force, men would have to work double to keep the economy in the same place. Even now sexhaver couples have to pool both their incomes just to survive. If the woman wasn't working they would suffer a lot. Trying to limit the labor pool to men will destroy the economy. It simply does not make sense to compare to the past when women weren't working and men worked 8 hours a day, the correct comparison is to the current situation in poor countries where both men and women work 12 hours a day to stay in poverty. If you think about it, only rich men have housewives. Though this is just for the present though.
Inflation means that companies are hiring workers to produce value. Deflation means that rich people are keeping their money in the bank to get compound interest or to simply avoid the financial loss that spending money on anything would incur. In other words, with inflation poor people watch the prices of things go up and in deflation they literally die of starvation, like in the great depression. That is a HUGE difference. Poor people literally die in the street during deflation. If the poor people are able to afford less over time from the combination of wages not increasing and cost of living increasing this is actually reflecting a much bigger and deeper problem in the economic health it is not a surface level issue. If you think about it if the economy was healthy then even if the wages stayed exactly the same, the cost of living would basically be constant or declining naturally from economic competition. The idea that inflation makes the rich richer because it causes the price of housing to go up is actually flawed because it's actually going up because people are buying houses through mortgages that they're going to foreclose and return to the bank so it actually makes them poorer.
No matter what the economic environment is, money always has value, because rich people are rewarded for deciding how to spend their money. The power to decide the allocation of capital is in the hands of rich people. They could just lose all their money too. When the stock market fell 50% rich people basically lost half this money.
I don't really mean to defend rich people though. What i am saying is that the actual problem that needs to be solved is how to increase economic productivity and efficiency. The reason the economy is inefficient is mostly due to regulations. Poor people should be able to do economic activities a lot more easily such as working multiple jobs as much as they want to , living in their vehicle instead being forced to live in a house, lending money to each other instead of having to use a bank etc. For example look at how many insane regulations this website has to follow. Imagine if this website was subject to way less regulations then poor people would be able to do way more economic activities at a much cheaper price.
