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I like this visualization, but I think there is a harder to quantify layer under this. While someone making 50k a year in 2000, would need to make 100k in 2026 for the same economic power, it is actually much worse.

In the year 2000, there were just less products and services then there are now. And the products that did exist were generally more durable and repairable than today. And in many cases, products that exist now but didn’t back then have reasonable substitutes (like renting or buying movies, since you don’t have Netflix).

I would even take it one step further and say that the ways you had to interact with those substitutes were healthier and more social than what we have now.