Depreciation momentarily reduces the pressure on businesses to re-coup the additional costs of depreciating equipment and facilities but it in fact neither eliminates the necessary totality of those costs to them to replace such, nor does it mean they do not continually pass those additional costs on to consumers so those costs will additionally go into consumer prices in an ongoing way. This is one of the factors which makes the system  inherently and dynamically cost inflationary due to a scarcity of total individual incomes in ratio to total costs/prices. If the business does not pass will be forced to borrow all of those costs in order to replace them which will add to their overhead costs and endanger their business. Also, there are no additional individual incomes created so that the individual can liquidate those additional costs except via debt which of course adds considerable additional costs to both the system, and to the individual as well. This rigged and onerous situation cannot be fixed or entirely resolved without a costless means of raising individual incomes, i.e. a direct supplementary free gift of income to the individual.