user451: Bitcoin was made to be mined until roughly 2140.  I like that it was made for decades to come while many projects are built for 4 years or whatever.
Personally I do not believe inflation in and of itself is bad, as economies are not static and expand.  What is bad is inflation manipulation that is unprovable and not tamper-proof, or when it is too high.
Coin Gecko currently shows circ supply to TS as:
32,056,062,599 / 45,000,000,000
71% in circulation on the 3rd year already seems a bit high.
Does Cardano have to have a fixed supply?  A perpetual, provable, tamper-proof small stock-to-flow seems best to me.
Can someone make the decisions behind Cardano's inflation make sense to me?

user281: The uncirculated (reserve) coins are distributed over time at a specific percentage rate.  As the reserve decreases in size, the amount distributed each epoch (5 days) will decrease.  At the current percentage rate the reserve will halve approximately every 4-5 years.

Ada has a fixed supply of 45 billion coins
30 Billion coins were issued/sold during the ICO rounds
The other 15 Billion coins were placed into a reserve for operation of the network
Every 5 days (each epoch) the transaction fees and a fixed percentage of the reserve are added to a pot
A fixed percentage of the epoch's pot is added to the treasury and the rest are distributed as staking rewards

Cardano monetary policy has a more precise explanation.

451: <p>Bitcoin was made to be mined until roughly 2140.  I like that it was made for decades to come while many projects are built for 4 years or whatever.</p>
<p>Personally I do not believe inflation in and of itself is bad, as economies are not static and expand.  What is bad is inflation manipulation that is unprovable and not tamper-proof, or when it is too high.</p>
<p>Coin Gecko currently shows circ supply to TS as:</p>
<p>32,056,062,599 / 45,000,000,000</p>
<p>71% in circulation on the 3rd year already seems a bit high.</p>
<p>Does Cardano have to have a fixed supply?  A perpetual, provable, tamper-proof small stock-to-flow seems best to me.</p>
<p>Can someone make the decisions behind Cardano's inflation make sense to me?</p>
 281: <p>The uncirculated (reserve) coins are distributed over time at a specific percentage rate.  As the reserve decreases in size, the amount distributed each epoch (5 days) will decrease.  At the current percentage rate the reserve will halve approximately every 4-5 years.</p>
<ul>
<li>Ada has a fixed supply of 45 billion coins</li>
<li>30 Billion coins were issued/sold during the ICO rounds</li>
<li>The other 15 Billion coins were placed into a reserve for operation of the network</li>
<li>Every 5 days (each epoch) the transaction fees and a fixed percentage of the reserve are added to a pot</li>
<li>A fixed percentage of the epoch's pot is added to the treasury and the rest are distributed as staking rewards</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://docs.cardano.org/en/latest/explore-cardano/cardano-monetary-policy.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cardano monetary policy</a> has a more precise explanation.</p>
