This is hard to grasp, because it's the productive output you don't get and will never see that's at stake. What are you missing out on? Things real people want: better healthcare, cheaper/healthier food, more time away from work with their families. What did you get instead? Multiple housing booms, useless dot com companies, acres of useless tulips fields. I am not saying the latter have no value, but rather that they are pursued because of inaccurate market signals and come at the cost of non-investment in more valuable, life saving and life improving pursuits.
Inflation is just as deadly serious as mass graves, because at massive scale that's what it quietly causes.