This white paper critiques the dominant economic prioritization of inflation control over life-needs provisioning. Drawing from Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), and historical analysis, it exposes the ideological and structural roots of this inversion. It argues that the inflation-first approach serves capital preservation rather than public purpose and has led to widespread deprivation, systemic injustice, and ecological breakdown. The paper proposes a life-coherent economic framework in which provisioning of basic needs is primary, and inflation is managed as a secondary function in service to life. This reframing calls for new economic metrics, fiscal tools, and narrative paradigms that re-anchor governance in human and planetary wellbeing.
