A 1 oz gold coin has bought a full nice mens suit including all accessories for about 2k years now.
A model T was 20oz of gold, same as a mid trim mid level sedan today. $40k instead of $400 if you use dollars.
Stop measuring in dollars and start measuring value against other scarce assets.
You'll quickly find that everything costs about the same and you got robbed by dollars.
The money has been removed from the currency
Government currency used to be money. The money has been siphoned out, but the currency hasn't changed.
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