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The inflation may be constant each year but over the years it accumulates. Check yourself the inflation impact on your savings:

https://www.rl360.com/row/tools/inflation-calculator.htm

With inflation rate 2% after 25 years you lose about 40% of your savings value.

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I'm fully aware of that, but there's many financial instruments to hedge against inflation. To that end, I'd sooner put my money into Rolex watches or sneakers than cryptocurrency.

Friendly advice, buy 20$ of Bitcoin to feel how it works before judging it. It might change your mind.

I do know how it feels, because I do hold some Bitcoin for "fun". Most of the time, it's down 80% from the previous high. Then it randomly appreciates 10x before cratering again. With any meaningful amount of money, that doesn't feel good at all.

The purchasing power I might lose from a mere $20 is of course irrelevant. If I put it into Bitcoin it might turn into $100 or $200 at an off-chance, but that has nothing to do with inflation. Bitcoin just isn't that correlated with cash. If I wanted to make a $20 bet that the dollar inflates dramatically, I would buy an option to buy gold at $5000.

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