When the purchasing power of currency goes down, the people with the most currency actually lose the most, meaning the rich. In this way, there is a flattening effect. In cases of hyperinflation, having 3 million dollars is scarcely better than having 300, and money is revealed to be the apparition that it actually has been all along. The negative impacts of being unable to purchase basic goods and services also acutely affect the working class, but in a lot of cases that's already true in a "healthy" economy.
This is the reason the bourgeoisie is always pulling their hair out about it. It's also only ever used as a pretense to do austerity and extract even more wealth from the working class while cutting basic services.
Since value comes from labor instead of markets or scarcity, inflation also literally wouldn't effect our standard of living in a meaningful way at all if we set in place robust mutual aid networks and centers and divide the labor in a more just way.
When the narratives of capitalist realism and market necessity start to erode, this is actually a good thing, and this is the case with inflation as long as we are organized and prepared to exist beyond the market.
thanks. I'm not going to argue with people about their real material conditions like hunger, but the effects of inflation are literally basic economics and are already well known. Inflation hurts economic growth, and capitalists rely on increasing economic growth to survive. If you want to attack the capitalist financial system that dominates and enslaves the world, high inflation is like a stake to the heart of that beast because it directly reduces returns across the board. Yeah sure the capitalists are so rich they will never have to worry about starving, but it's not like poor people weren't starving in America before inflation went up. Declining material conditions cause destabilization and precipitate revolution, which you should be interested in as a communist anyway.