As I pondered this, our actual inflation has been WORSE than 2,000% since 1913, if you consider that what SHOULD have been happening is that the buying power of the dollar was increasing. Thus, to the measurably lost value of the dollar must be added the increases in value that did not occur. Let us posit that the value of the dollar SHOULD have been increasing 3% per year, and instead decreased 3%. That is a 6% swing.
We should be working 20 hours a week and living well on that. We have been horribly, horribly misled. We should never forget that there is evil in this world, and it takes many forms.