To: Lazamataz
Remember as a youth, you'd buy a big bag of Doritos for your party and you'd spend 99 cents? Well, I bought a much smaller bag for $4.69.
But your dad made $11,000 salary.
5 posted on
11/05/2023 7:17:48 AM PST by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: Dr. Sivana
True, we really have to adjust people’s nostalgia for how much things cost years ago, based on changes in the rates of inflation over the decades.
To: Dr. Sivana
Things are far worse now than in previous decades.
Run the numbers.
12 posted on
11/05/2023 7:22:31 AM PST by
EEGator
To: Dr. Sivana
I can handle that, but this feels like something different.
14 posted on
11/05/2023 7:24:14 AM PST by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Dr. Sivana
Yeah everything is up 5 to 10 x
The products and services- but also wages.
Min wage in San Francisco is basically $20/hr. But cheeseburgers are $10-15. Gas is $5-6.
35 posted on
11/05/2023 8:21:41 AM PST by
Persevero
(You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
To: Dr. Sivana
Yeah. I remember in 1969 sitting with associates at lunch and they were saying: “If you ever make ten thousand/yr, you know u have made it”.
37 posted on
11/05/2023 8:33:52 AM PST by
Karoo
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