On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 10:00 AM Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

If you actually do the numbers on this, you'll realize it takes absolutely
catastrophic black swan events that make WW2 look like a minor conflict to make
even insignificant inflation rate changes due to changes in lost coins.

That somewhat depends on what you mean by 'significant' and 'catastrophic' but I believe the way the model goes is that if X% of coins are lost that means that the value of all outstanding coins will go up by X%, and if the rate of breakage goes from Y% annually to Y*Z% annually then the value of all coins will go up by a factor of Z. This is of course an idealized model in steady state, but gives some idea of scale.