How is any inflation good? How about simple price stability like you would get on a gold standard?
Would a gold standard really do that? How could going to a gold standard fix all costs? There would still be ups and downs in the cost of energy, changes in productivity and other fluctuations in the cost of producing goods. Companies would still have to compete for the best labor by offering higher salaries to lure new employees. Prices would still rise. I don't see how it is possible to have 0 inflation over time.
All the gold standard would do is tie the dollar to the price of gold, which has its own ups and downs according to what the market it doing. If the dollar went gold, I imagine the price of gold would go up, and so would the dollar. Then everybody would yell about the "trade deficit!"
Germany was on the gold standard during their hyperinflation of the 1920's.