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edmund_the_destroyer wrote
It also depends on where you live, right? The place I was at, a studio apartment is over $1,000 / month. That's not as bad as Silicon Valley, but it means $9.50 only works if you've got roommates that can pitch in.
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edmund_the_destroyer wrote
It depends on the middle class town. The small town where I grew up and the surrounding small towns had a few manufacturing companies and coal mines as their big employers. Those are all shut down, so the jobs are Walmart, grocery stores, gas stations, and retirement homes.
rot wrote
It was never sustainable either. especialally after population growth
edmund_the_destroyer wrote
I tell this story a lot: in the early 1970s my dad worked at a manufacturing plant making almost $10/hour, when minimum wage was $1.60. He paid cash for a car and paid his own rent and college tuition without loans.
30 years later he managed 200 people at a manufacturing plant, for an inflation-adjusted 30% more than he was making at age 18.
That's capitalist progress.