A comparision between two subadditivity

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I have a simple question about the subadditivity of inf, it's easy to show that

$\inf_x (f+g)(x) \ge \inf_x f(x) + \inf_y g(y)$.

And for norm we have

$\inf_{x\in X,y\in Y}(\|x\|+\|y\|)\le \inf_{x\in X}\|x\| +\inf_{y\in Y}\|y\|$.

My qustion is why they look quite similar but with different directions of inequalities.

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The second done is actually an equality. The first one would have been an equality if we had $\inf_{x,y} (f(x)+g(y))$ instead of $\inf_x (f+g)(x))$. The main difference is you have two variables $x$ and independent of each other in the second one whereas there is only one variable in the LHS of first inequality.