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 I understand that privacy is important but bitcoin is so much more than a tool for privacy. It’s Austrian economics in action. 
 Sure. Keep repeating that to yourself as they come knocking on your door.

Then you'll understand that without privacy there is no freedom in modern times. 
 Is gold no tool for Austrian economics? And if it is, how is Monero with half of golds inflation no tool for Austrian economics, while thanks to its fungibility and portability it's also a better medium of exchange than Bitcoin or gold?

You know that tail emission is not something Monero devs came up with because they think inflation is super cool and necessary for money to work? You know that, right?

Monero devs figured that fee markets are a novel concept that have never been tried before and therefore from a conservative engineering perspective introduce future security risks. Tail emission is a trade off between chain security (mining incentives) and the economic costs of inflation (hidden tax).

From an economic perspective it's more important to know the supply of Monero at any point in the future. Which is a given. 
 I dont understand why you talk badly about inflation like monero would be Zimbabwe 2.0 when Ethereum or Solana exists.

You also talk about gold inflation and saying Monero is half of it. So are you saying gold is hidden taxed ? Yes there's inflation but a very low cost to keep people incentivized to mine. 

The more Bitcoin halves, more there's miner capitulations and now there's also speculators who can spike fees to more than 100$ for a single transaction. 
 I do think Monero's little inflation is a feature.