There are people who've never tried to earn a living in the real world who actually think the wild fluctuations over months doesn't matter, and that the change from one century to the next does. But even the long term cpi change didn't begin until 1933 when gold certificates were recalled and the FOMC took over. We all know that this was the big change that put paid to the gold insanity, but not as many people are familiar with how the employment picture changed after 1933:
