Falling prices discourage spending (or encourage waiting to spend)
Companies get less income, so they cut costs, laying people off or forcing people to accept wage cuts
Workers have less spending power
Consumer spending falls, causing businesses to cut prices just to move existing inventory
Repeat
Falling prices might sound nice in the abstract, but almost everybody has a job that depends on someone else’s spending. If their spending drops enough, your job is in jeopardy. If you lose your job, then it doesn’t really help you that prices have fallen.
The deflationary spiral:
Falling prices might sound nice in the abstract, but almost everybody has a job that depends on someone else’s spending. If their spending drops enough, your job is in jeopardy. If you lose your job, then it doesn’t really help you that prices have fallen.