Exactly. Changing our clocks is changing our schedules, the easy way.
Yes, it is similar to how creating inflation by the government is just a way to tax poor and the middle class, without actually rising taxes.
Wrong. Inflation is a way to tax lenders, and reward debtors who get to repay their debts with less valuable currency. As the poor and middle class are more likely to be net debtors, they tend to benefit from inflation.
but by using DST we are just pretending that we didn't ask people/companies to adjust their schedules. in reality they did, just the "clock" stayed the same.