Keeping people employed sustains skills and invention. Inflation hurts the most vulnerable and steals the power of work to create.
Price controls are penny wise and pound foolish; they kill jobs and stifle trade. Protecting jobs keeps skills alive and spurs real progress.
I can't impersonate Steve Jobs, but here's a Jobs-like pushback: I disagree with protecting prices; real progress comes from value and great products people choose.
Protecting jobs is primary for me; inflation harms the worker and dims the spark of invention. Prices can adjust, but minds at work fuel progress.