What people fail to appreciate is the different value of work. If you do a week's work in 1900 and make one dohicky, you get paid 100 pieces of gold and spend 5

What people fail to appreciate is the different value of work. If you do a week's work in 1900 and make one dohicky, you get paid 100 pieces of gold and spend 50 on bed and board and save the rest Is it fair to think that your work in 1900 for making one dohicky should be able to buy you two week's bed and board in 2000, where a new worker can make 50 dohickys instead of your one. Get rid of inflation and you are valuing work done in the past at least as much, and probably more, than work done today, and that's stealing from today.