Originally Posted By: peter
Notice that inflation does not "steal" any value from savings that are not money: property, for instance, or art.
Until the loss of purchasing power of the money (aka: inflation) is greater than the appreciation of real value of the property...

For lack of a better metric, I define real value as "How many hours of work did/does it take to obtain the property."

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