None of which matters so long as wages keep pace, which they do, and you can achieve a meaningful positive real return on your investments, which you can. Protecting the purchasing power of burlap sacks of un-invested money on a 20 year horizon is nobody's goal. Currently even a HYSA exceeds inflation and offers you a positive real return.
I asked ChatGPT to rephrase this quote to fit 9/11:
"We're gonna take you back, to the year 1939 when Charlie Chaplin and his nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world... But then an even greater force emerged, the U.N. and the U.N. un-nazied the world—forever"
Having an un-bounded sense of humanity is a gift to the world. Expecting the world- or all your fellow humans - to return the same is a curse on yourself.