You're being downvoted but this is entirely correct. Inflation or deflation is a mismatch between the amount of money and the demand for money - if your economy increases at the same rate as the money supply, you won't have inflation even though you are "printing money". Similarly, you can have an absolutely fixed currency supply and still experience inflation (if your demand drops off a cliff).
Money is just another good. It has its own demand and supply. Ideally, you want those to match - which is what central banks try to do.
"Hard-currency advocated" (gold standard people) have been arguing against this concept since its inception, but, their system doesn't have a way to manage the money supply, which leads to frequent recessions. The gold period is marked by recessions that took place every couple years - and that was in a 19th century economy that moved far slower and was far less interconnected.
The reason we have inflation and deflation is that people don't have to talk to each other to coordinate supply and demand on specific days.
The gold standard doesn't solve the short term inflation deflation problem because to solve that you must ensure that for every buyer there is a seller that can handle the demand and the opposite, that for every seller there is also a buyer at any given point in time.
The purpose of saving is to sell today and buy tomorrow and trade places with someone that wants to buy today and sell tomorrow.
When you are saving for retirement you must sell to a future worker that will take care of you when you are old and that future worker must take on debt and buy from you. Then when you retire the positions reverse, you are buying and he is selling.
Only if those positions are in balance do you actually get no inflation.
But nobody even wants to think about coordinating production and consumption schedules because they fooled themselves into thinking liquid money does it automatically when the fact that we have inflation and deflation really just shows that it doesn't work.
People save more than others want to be in debt leading to deflation. Or people take on more debt than others want to save and reduce consumption leading to competition over products and services and higher prices aka inflation.
Not exactly. It's the "printing of money" that increases faster than the economic output/demand curve that causes inflation.
You can definitely be "printing money" in a deflationary environment as well.
You can also see a general price level increase with the same money supply, if the velocity of money increases, or if the supply of goods goes down.