I did the inflation calculation on the grape picker wage Chavez negotiated in 1966...
Old Wage - $1.25 (1966) - $11.94 (2023)
Chavez Wage - $1.75 (1966) - $16.72 (2023)
It is pointless to exist. The insufferable ennui of the drudgery of simple existence destroys, like a cancer in my heart, the shallow vanity of life. All that I ever do, all that I ever think, speak, or see: my life, my dreams, my hopes, my fears, my emotions, they all have no meaning, or effect, or hope, whatsoever. A lifetime of screwing things up — no more important than if I had succeeded in all my efforts — both without meaning and without purpose. The wisps and cobwebs of this temporary reality have falsely proclaimed themselves as real, and in it’s doing, destroyed all they touched.