It is false, members of the Bitcoin core team have already said as much - that in order for the base network to continue functioning, inflation will need to take place.
More than that, the supply is essentially infinite right now. You can already see this in the boom and bust cycles where AOSS (any old s*tcoin) will rise and fall in tandem - this indicates that any large moves draw speculators to those tokens they subjectively view as less or more expensive.
The biggest issue with this ultimately is that for Bitcoin to succeed, civilisation has to fail. You can't tax an asset you can't see and account for transparently (pseudonymous wallets), so you can't have electricity networks, heating networks, schools, police, military, welfare, public roads, running water, sewage, public facilities like libraries/museums, bursaries, national parks, ownership by right of any physical property whatsoever (there'd be no way to enforce physical ownership without public bodies, so essentially all ownership is decided moment-to-moment at the end of a gun last-of-us-style), or Bitcoin itself (as the public infrastructure supporting the network would not be maintained).
More than that, the supply is essentially infinite right now. You can already see this in the boom and bust cycles where AOSS (any old s*tcoin) will rise and fall in tandem - this indicates that any large moves draw speculators to those tokens they subjectively view as less or more expensive.
The biggest issue with this ultimately is that for Bitcoin to succeed, civilisation has to fail. You can't tax an asset you can't see and account for transparently (pseudonymous wallets), so you can't have electricity networks, heating networks, schools, police, military, welfare, public roads, running water, sewage, public facilities like libraries/museums, bursaries, national parks, ownership by right of any physical property whatsoever (there'd be no way to enforce physical ownership without public bodies, so essentially all ownership is decided moment-to-moment at the end of a gun last-of-us-style), or Bitcoin itself (as the public infrastructure supporting the network would not be maintained).