If you want to scare yourself, go to this webpage and calculate what a dollar used to be worth. It is the Bank of Canada inflation calculator.
When my mother bought a load of good quality bread in 1960 for 25 cents, she was paying $2.44 in 2022 currency. Equivalent quality artisanal bread today costs about $5.00 a loaf.
My first annual salary of $12,500 in 1974 is now $69, 338, which is considerably higher than what the same rank in the civil service gets today. Go figure.