Keynes stated that the best way to implement socialism was to inflate the currency to steal the wealth of the individual in such a way that not one man in a million would know what was happening.
Back in 1964 my Econ 101 instructor explained exactly the same thing without mentioning socialism. He simply explained, and advocated, that government liked to pay off its debt with gradually inflating dollars——I learned right there that I had to always manage my own financial affairs to protect myself from inflation because I was going to have to beat government at it’s own game. He didn’t have anything to say about how to do that——I just assumed it was “Homework.”