I typed out a very snarky response which was in complete agreement with your point, and erased it.

You're right. The economy is... fucked. The "great wealth transfer" will be vacuumed up quickly, and it'll get worse.

World of Warcraft (of all things) had this kind of issue with stats and damage numbers getting into the absurd range, so they did a stat crunch. We need a global stat crunch.