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Actually, todays prices are similar, if you are talking around 1967, though minimum wage was $1.40, so you must have been doing something right, like working hard to go up the ladder.When I was that age, a job at McDonalds paid $2.10 an hourView attachment 164037
Even McDonald's acknowledges that their business was intended for children.
Holding businesses that are created with the employment of kids & college students responsible for the poor choices people make in life is wrong. If you're in your mid to late 20's or higher & working for minimum wage you have no one to blame but yourself. You're poor choices should not result in a 10.00 Big Mac or 4 dollar fry.
That was two tickets to the movies
That was seven gallons of gas
I would have had to work half a year to buy a new car
I was able to pay for a full year of college just working summers
It would take over $15 an hour to do the same today
Average new car price was $2750. You would have been short by $600 working full time.
Today you can get one for around $13,000.
You could work full time for 6 months at the $10 average per hour wage at McDonalds, and have a little left for gas.
Movie tickets were $1.25, so just short on that.
Today you can go to the movie for around $6-9 a ticket, depending where you are. Yes, it was cheaper back then.
And with todays avg $10 per hour, you could only get around 4-5 gallons of gas.
Yes, college was cheaper.
So, it is similar, over all, but college.
I'm talking 1974
Minimum wage workers did not buy average priced cars. But six months at $2.10 an hour ($2200) could buy you a new VW, Pinto, Dart, Vega even a Nova
Take you close to a year to buy that $13,000 car at $7.25
Want gas in that car?
$2.10 would buy you seven gallons in 1974
Your $7.25 would get you three today
Want to go to college on minimum wage in 1974 ?
I paid $650 a YEAR in 1974. About three months work at minimum wage
To get the buying power I had at minimum wage in 1974 you would need to earn $15 today
That very much depends on where you live which is why a one size fits all attitude is bad for America.Fifteen bucks an hour full time is somewhere around $30,000 a year.
Someone should tell these right wing assholes around here that that is not a lot of money in this day and age.
Someone should tell Mexico it's their problem and send these worthless illegal fuckers home.Fifteen bucks an hour full time is somewhere around $30,000 a year.
Someone should tell these right wing assholes around here that that is not a lot of money in this day and age.
You can thank our Federal Reserve for that, along with all the product-liability suits.Minimum wage workers did not buy average priced cars. But six months at $2.10 an hour ($2200) could buy you a new VW, Pinto, Dart, Vega even a Nova
That very much depends on where you live which is why a one size fits all attitude is bad for America.Fifteen bucks an hour full time is somewhere around $30,000 a year.
Someone should tell these right wing assholes around here that that is not a lot of money in this day and age.
It costs far less to live in Timbucktoo Nebraska than it does to live in NY
1.9 million people.Who in their right mind wants to live in Nebraska making $15 per hour? Talk about a depressing sickening thought. Wow.
Fifteen bucks an hour full time is somewhere around $30,000 a year.
Someone should tell these right wing assholes around here that that is not a lot of money in this day and age.
And in case you can't see it the sign says "committed to being America's first job"
It doesn't say last job or career
Actually, no, far from it.
Derpy, hmmm, that sounds so familiar...Well, at least you admit to being a commie...Throw that race card around at all costs, buddy. It works. I swear.That sounds curiously like the master Nazi race, nice going! Strangely Imam sure you're proud.
In fact, me typing this response is racist. My white privilege is seeping through.
Illegal Mexicans have fucked up our entire labor force by coming in here, living 40 to a single-family house, taking low-wage jobs, and suppressing wages everywhere. It's the ultimate Bolshevik scam to pressure America into more marxist bullshit.
Never allow a commie to live.
Throw that race card around at all costs, buddy. It works. I swear.That sounds curiously like the master Nazi race, nice going! Strangely Imam sure you're proud.
In fact, me typing this response is racist. My white privilege is seeping through.
Illegal Mexicans have fucked up our entire labor force by coming in here, living 40 to a single-family house, taking low-wage jobs, and suppressing wages everywhere. It's the ultimate Bolshevik scam to pressure America into more marxist bullshit.
Never allow a commie to live.
Oh, please come get me.
And you're another Nazi, we can do this all day Derpy.
And in case you can't see it the sign says "committed to being America's first job"
It doesn't say last job or career
Why wouldn't employers want to hold onto employees for life?
And in case you can't see it the sign says "committed to being America's first job"
It doesn't say last job or career
Why wouldn't employers want to hold onto employees for life?
And in case you can't see it the sign says "committed to being America's first job"
It doesn't say last job or career
Why wouldn't employers want to hold onto employees for life?
Ask GM since they pay for employees that do not work for them any more., because of unions
They started to listen to bigots I suppose.If a person I see working greater than 30 hours a week, they are working for a living and not a high school kid. People working for a living deserve a living wage. Only in a society that does not value a work this could it be argued otherwise.
I remember when nobody gave two shits about what a child's job designed for children to gain work experience paid.
THEN
We became beanerized...35 year olds stole our kids jobs....and now people want us to pay $12 for a happy meal so Guadalupe and Pedro can feed their five anchor babies, buy their sack of weed, pit bull and Modello....What the fuck happened here people?
Ask GM since they pay for employees that do not work for them any more., because of unions
God bless the Unions and the Labor Movement!
They started to listen to bigots I suppose.If a person I see working greater than 30 hours a week, they are working for a living and not a high school kid. People working for a living deserve a living wage. Only in a society that does not value a work this could it be argued otherwise.
I remember when nobody gave two shits about what a child's job designed for children to gain work experience paid.
THEN
We became beanerized...35 year olds stole our kids jobs....and now people want us to pay $12 for a happy meal so Guadalupe and Pedro can feed their five anchor babies, buy their sack of weed, pit bull and Modello....What the fuck happened here people?