User talk:23.249.36.33

In this article, many dollar amounts are mentioned, but it is not clear when a particular amount is the actual historical amount or whether it is scaled up to be "equivalent" to modern dollars. Even worse, the scaling factor that the article mentions is a gosh-darned sliding scale (GDP in different years as time went by.) I strenuously object to that! It makes it impossible to reverse-engineer the figures to see what the ORIGINAL dollar amount was. Also impossible to tell whether the conversion method was consistently applied, or whether it contains errors. Please, just express the actual historical amounts, and (optionally) put scaled-up equivalents in parentheses. THAT is the standard way of handling historical amounts, and for good reasons.

Bill Strutz (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2019 (UTC)