I meant if you were in the actual time, 1975. As in, trading your current bills for those bills, and spending them back then.
You would still have the same number of dollars, but you’d have dollars that had more value in each, and thus more purchasing power. Prices were lower, because the value of each dollar was higher, even though the same goods were still priced in dollars back then and today.
A dollar is not an unchanging unit, because it’s purpose is to be spent, and to represent value. One dollar is one dollar, but how much goods someone is willing to give you for a dollar changes, thus a dollar is never truly equivalent to itself at a different time in the past.
The value of a dollar will change from one second to the next, as the prices of goods in the economy are updated to reflect how many dollars someone thinks they are individually worth, and by doing so, the value of the dollar as a method of purchasing power changes.
There is no objective measure by which the dollar determines its value, and there is no peg that one dollar will always be worth. One dollar today gets you less than a dollar 50 years ago, thus the dollar today is worth less than a dollar 50 years ago, even if the denomination on the bill is the same number.
I meant if you were in the actual time, 1975. As in, trading your current bills for those bills, and spending them back then.
You would still have the same number of dollars, but you’d have dollars that had more value in each, and thus more purchasing power. Prices were lower, because the value of each dollar was higher, even though the same goods were still priced in dollars back then and today.
A dollar is not an unchanging unit, because it’s purpose is to be spent, and to represent value. One dollar is one dollar, but how much goods someone is willing to give you for a dollar changes, thus a dollar is never truly equivalent to itself at a different time in the past.
The value of a dollar will change from one second to the next, as the prices of goods in the economy are updated to reflect how many dollars someone thinks they are individually worth, and by doing so, the value of the dollar as a method of purchasing power changes.
There is no objective measure by which the dollar determines its value, and there is no peg that one dollar will always be worth. One dollar today gets you less than a dollar 50 years ago, thus the dollar today is worth less than a dollar 50 years ago, even if the denomination on the bill is the same number.