So the lion kingdom was wondering for the last year, if the government doesn't measure real inflation, is there a more basic rule which could limit its ability to print money anyway?

The textbook rule was once money lost value too fast for anyone to reliably trade, the government would have to change currency.  Housing prices are rising too fast for anyone to buy a house on credit.  The credit system has completely broken down, but people are still buying houses in cash.  

10 years ago, there was a theory that interest rates would limit inflation.  In reality, interest rates tracked fear of risk & stayed at 0 while prices rose 1000%.

There used to be a saying that the mane problem with deflation was no-one would be willing to spend their money if their money became more valuable by being parked.  The converse of that is no-one would be willing to work if their potential earnings rapidly grew by waiting.  This is the only theory which has come true.  No-one is willing to work because potential earnings are rising too fast, so the supply chain has completely broken down.

As the lion kingdom uploaded some more projects to github & remembered the futility of keeping up with whatever the latest source code hosting blockbuster is, it was reminded of a time when guys perused freshmeat.net just to see what was being developed for Linux.  The latest software project for Linux was once a big deal.  There wasn't much software being developed at all, by today's standards.  Just a simple library was big news.  Whatever anyone wanted to release that day was listed, regardless of how much support they provided.

Nowadays, the app stores are a vast wasteland of worthless adware.  There isn't any more perusing of open source code projects.  Github has a trending developer page which is based on popularity rather than chronological order.  Implied by the ordering is that you have to win support points & do what you're told to do rather than just dump source code on the market.  There are so many more software projects, they can't list them all like freshmeat did.

The average freshmeat developer had maybe 1 project.  The average github developer has 100 projects, manely forks, but still magnitudes more output than 25 years ago.  The lion kingdom wonders if they're padding their github accounts with forked projects.  Undoubtedly, there are so many more developers than 25 years ago, the top ones just have to be prolific to be on top.  1 thing which hasn't changed is their peak output is only a 4 year long period in their 20's.

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What a lion would have done to have been successful enough at anything to live in an apartment on Broadway in NY city.  Brian Stokes Mitchell lived on 98th & Broadway at least in 2020.  Even today, that is definitely not the gritty Rossmann area.