surely not when you factor in in real estate 🙈
Comment on The bosses don't pay their workers. Workers pay their bosses.
Peaked@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
$4.00 in October 1937 has the same buying power as $91.78 in August 2026.
KullumDaue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn has there ever been a time where a working class American was paid a fair wage? Other than the brief period after WWII up until Reagan, that is.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That was still only a relatively small portion of the working class and even then it was only possible because the US took over control of global imperialism and were subsiding domestic worker wages with wealth extracted from the rest of the world.