After the biggest rise in poverty in 30 years, man has taken to social media to explain that people shouldn’t worry about not having enough money to heat their homes or put food on the table,…
There was an older gop congressman complaining about the proposed minimum wage, saying when he was young he made $4/hr when he was in college and that it was plenty. Someone did the math and his $4/hr was equivalent to $26/hr now.
If your coworker was making $4/hr in 1970, he was making the equivalent of $32/hr, or roughly 66k/hr. He should probably shut the fuck up about starting 6k/yr above what kids do nowadays 50 years later.
There was an older gop congressman complaining about the proposed minimum wage, saying when he was young he made $4/hr when he was in college and that it was plenty. Someone did the math and his $4/hr was equivalent to $26/hr now.
If your coworker was making $4/hr in 1970, he was making the equivalent of $32/hr, or roughly 66k/hr. He should probably shut the fuck up about starting 6k/yr above what kids do nowadays 50 years later.