I understand your point of view, but the thing is, most players who have valuable things have worked hard to attain those things. It's not fair to those players to basically lower the value of their inventory and years of hard work because some players can't afford it, but I do think this creates a gap we need to close. I think if the staff did an event where they put money into the economy from banned accounts, then it would put money into circulation for new players to buy things. The problem is, the value of good pokes has not changed especially things like shinys with olds ivs that are even harder to come by, the people with enough money to buy them just simply aren't here. Even if I lowered the value on most of my pokes, it still wouldn't be an option for most current players. I doubt the majority of current players even have over 50mil. Then there are some who still play that have lots of money.
I don't think it falls on the backs of the current players at all. We control them to some extent, it's basic economics.. demand vs supply. When players left the game due to whatever past grievances and big past situations with the staff, that is what crippled the economy, not the current players still dedicated to playing, or the new players who sometimes drop in. The server isn't as full, there aren't as many people to find things and trading them, there aren't as many players out there racking up pokedollars, so not as many pokedollars are going into the PWO economy.
Personally in 2019, I gave away over 100mil to random players and even hosted a competition giving away pokedollars here on the forum to help the economy and you can go in and view my posts to confirm this. I have given away valuable pokes. It simply wasn't enough because the economy is so scarce most people will just hang on to the things with value. It's just difficult to ask the players who know the value of their pokes and the work they put into getting them, to drastically lower the value. This would, in my opinion, not make the economy balanced, it would just be a form of inflation. The value pokes are at now does not need to change and I agree with you on this point because if the staff were to do some type of event and players decided to go up on their values due to this, it would be counterintuitive. It would just take the right type of planning of how much money would need to be put out to the current economy so that it balances out. One thing I will state, is that I personally do think a lot of new ivs shiny pokes are way over valued, this only adds confusion to the market. I think battlers have always been high in value and rightfully so, if there's a demand to have strong pokes.
I do think the old players with the most valuable things should make some sort of pact that they wont go UP on prices, but if they're the ones with things only they can really put a price on because no one else has it, or theirs is the best version, that has always been normal in any economy and I think it's their own right. There simply isn't enough new money floating around out there to make anyone interested enough in giving up something they deem valuable and there isn't enough new players finding valuable things worth trading or buying for those with money still left.