Gold managed to be money for thousands of years despite having supply inflation of 1 to 2%.
So your thesis is just wrong.
Absolute scarcity is not only not a necessity for sound money, it is not good monetary policy.
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lol, wut?!? Bro, know your enemy before showing all of us that you know nothing.
Put up or shut up boss.
Gold was money for millennia and is STILL the go-to SoV for billions,
despite having supply inflation.
So obviously a fixed cap isn't a requirement for hard money or a SoV.
In fact, no economist EVER suggested that we should eliminate the supply side of the price of money.
Now what were you saying?
That's a very nuanced debate and doesn't mean inflation is desirable. E.g. Gold isn't infinitely divisible and so it requires inflation for it to be money.