Imagining that the government or the banks simply creates more of the same money is a conceptual illusion. When new units of money are created, what actually happens is not an expansion of the existing scale, but the creation of a new monetary scale that is given the same name as the previous one. A scale cannot remain the same if its units change or increase. If the number of units changes, the scale itself has changed. There is no such thing as a stable scale with variable units. As a result, society is effectively forced to transition from one monetary scale to another over time, often continuously, without being aware that this transition is happening. This silent and constant scale switching is what ultimately appears in the real world as rising prices.