Inflation is caused by too little capacity

Not too much money.

Inflation is here, and there are a lot of explanations for it. People who worry about the monetary supply — especially people in the deflation-loving cryptocurrency world — blame it on excessive money creation during the pandemic and uppity workers demanding higher wages:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-remote-work-makes-you-less-productive-wrong-2022-6

Anti-monopolists blame inflation on price-gouging. This is a persuasive argument. After all, CEOs of companies in highly concentrated industries keep giving investor presentations where they chortle, rub their hands, twirl their mustaches, and announce that their profits are sky-high thanks to their ability to raise prices:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its-the-economy-stupid/#overinflated

Some take a middle road and blame inflation on covid’s supply-chain shocks, or, translated into normal human speech: “China makes everything. China locks down every time there’s a covid outbreak. When that happens, China stops sending us stuff, which drives prices up”:

https://www.ft.com/content/483ef3bc-e600-4c2d-bbf3-15208e52020c

There’s a Russia/Ukraine version of this, too: “Russia exports a lot of gas. Ukraine exports a lot of wheat…