Inflation rate is just that a rate, not adjusting for it after 7 years because fuck people with limited mental capacity is sick.<p>As to trying things for 78 years we have very different problems now vs 78 years ago. To pretend otherwise is to simply act the fool.<p>There are many popular ideas that simply don&#x27;t work.  Pretending everyone is a healthy, intelligent, well educated, and they can just make everything better by working harder is one of them.  People have been working harder, productivity keeps growing but for a huge chunk of the population things have been getting worse over time. And that my friend is a very dangerous trend.