• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    24 hours ago

    I paid $6.00 for a small coffee and a donut recently.

    $81,000 isn’t a lot of money

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      16 hours ago

      I bought lunch for my team of five and it came to $75 with tip.

      Fuck me. This was like basic sandwiches, chips, and a soda.

      Next time, I’ll just bring them over to my house and make steaks for everybody for the same price.

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        9 hours ago

        One thing people don’t realize is how cheap luxuries used to be.

        When the average salary was about $5,000, you could get a top of the line Cadillac or a Jaguar for $6,000.

        Today the average is about $60,000 and supercars are in the million dollar range.

        School kids used to be able to buy courtside seats for a game, or see a Broadway show.

        Heck, a mocvie and a pizza out used to be a cheap date, now it can run a couple $100

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      19 hours ago

      The equivalent of 81k today is 62k in 2016.

      If you graduated in 2016 and entered the workforce 62k would’ve been starvation wages in a lot of cities, but could sit you ok most other places.

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        17 hours ago

        In 1960 the minimum wage was $1.00 an hour in the US. The price of the average US home was $11,000.00.

        Today it takes two college grads to achieve what a high school drop out could do 70 years ago. Progress!