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[–] 18 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

$4.00 in October 1937 has the same buying power as $91.78 in August 2026.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours 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.

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