What's causing all the inflation?

Agreed. Speculation attracted the truth, which people then b'itched, spat, and whined ethics at instead of trying to think of ways to fix the problem, eventually boiling down to trolling.

Waste of time people. The average age of people on this forum most likely falls into the 16-24 age group, the group of people in the world most likely not to care what you have to say and too stubborn to change their minds. Every post (even this; oh the irony) dealing with ethics has sought to change the way people think and act in order to accomplish some grand idealistic vision. Inspiration can only go far enough; action needs to take it's place once motivation has been created. I didn't see anyone trying to think of ways to fix this; just upset people giving up.

I don't think there's any problem with venting about an issue, but sooner or later you need to DO SOMETHING about it. Something that's not playing Ancient Forum Trade.

I agree. I did something about it though. I logged a ticket. I know that seems like it WON'T do jack shiet(probably won't.) but at least it's something alerting the GMs that there's a problem.