[marktwain]

Precisely.

The dollar is worth about 1/10 of what it was 60 years ago.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember an old cartoon from Saturday Evening Post from 1955. Yes, 1955.
A man is in his doctor’s office and the doctor examines him and says....”You are as sound as a dollar! And if you know what that means, YOU ARE A SICK, SICK MAN!”