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Originally Posted by redpoint5
That's not backed by any evidence I can find. Especially now, wages have exploded at the lower end of the spectrum. Burger flippers can start at like $15/hr these days with thousand dollar bonuses, which is absolutely insane.
People are better off than they were before, and not by just a little, by every metric.
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They start at $15/hr and end there as well. 20 years ago rent was an easy $600 here and burger flippers got $7/hr. Now rent is over $2000 and you get $15. 20 years ago the Post Office started at $17/hr and the house I bought was just over $100,000. Now the PO starts at $18.50/hr and the house I live in would cost $400,000 even in the condition it was back then (we have done a bunch of work so it's even more than that now). I would much rather be starting out 20 years ago compared to today. Very few are better off.