If you do that, don't forget to add dividends back in.
I look at my father in the 50's and 60's, an average engineer, his family, 7 children, wife, only one working parent. Owned a nice house in Massachusetts in the 50's on 1 3/4 acres of land that you probably could not touch for $750k today. Another in the 60's and 70's in Pennsylvania that would go for $400k to $450k today (large colonial on 3/4 acre, $23k new in 1963). Bought a new car every three to four years ($2500 - $3500, VW's advertised for $1899, I picked up late model used cars for $200 - $500 in those days). You could buy lots of groceries for $20. A good loaf of bread, $0.28, hamburger $0.30 per pound. Large Mars bars, $0.05 in the 50's, then going up to a dramatic $0.07, which seemed outrageous to us kids.
Anyway, imagine raising 7 kids on the average engineer's income these days.
The dollar has been subject to ferocious devaluation over the past 30-40 years, to the benefit of the thieving scum arranging the same, the pestilence that infest government. They suck the lifeblood out of the economy.