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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Excuse me, but 40 years ago, I certainly wasn't making $50,000. a year! My brother graduated with a bachelors from Harvard and came out to a job that paid about $23,000.00 a year, which was considerably more than what I was making a year, but it certainly wasn't anywhere close to $50,000.00 a year.
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Yes, because there's a little thing you may have heard of called "inflation." Assuming USD, your $23,000 from 1982 would be worth
$68,572.68 in 2022.
But while inflation's been jumping the cost of everything, wages have lagged behind it.
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Originally Posted by cfrizz
You are only thinking in terms of retail, fast food, and service jobs. Those jobs have never paid well, and if you don't have bigger ambitions than working those kinds of jobs that's on you.
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Good. Then you can stop patronizing retail stores and fast food restaurants. After all, everyone who works there should just find a better job, right?