Just for grins, I dropped $4.00 into the Inflation Calculator. That amount would have been 22 cents per day in 1933. I think if you asked any of our parents, grandparents, or relatives who grew up during the depression years they would agree that 22 cents was much more than they spent each day to feed a family, much less one person.
Agreed.
Note that in 1933 modern agriculture was just around the corner.
Chicken was a premium meal, hence: 1928 slogan ‘a chicken in every pot’.
Also in ‘33 work was a good thing to have, today not so much.