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EvilDood · 61w
I heard people used to pay for a movie ticket with a potato back then because it wasn’t always easy to get change 😂
Dug · 61w
This is what unfunded “social programmes” took from us.
Henny B · 61w
Under 2 cents per egg 😳 and I'll bet most eggs were high quality at the time
₿oniz23⚡️🏴‍☠️🇮🇹 · 61w
Oh my god 😳😳😱 hi jeff nice to meet you 🤝😉🤟
Des Imoto マキシ · 61w
And everything was beautiful.
Ken Berry, MD · 61w
All these things have went up in value so much! 🧐
William ₿ Travis · 61w
Jeff, what was the average monthly income at that time?
metadavid · 61w
Damn, Harvard wasn’t cheap back then either when you look at relative prices
Allen · 61w
My uncle has the receipt from when he was born in the 1940s. I think it was like $52.
Rocking Lazy JM ranch · 61w
My grandpa told me when I was young that before the war he was making $1.25 an hour in the copper mines as a blaster. That was damn good money back then.
SoapMiner · 61w
Harvard Tuition $420 Harvard was lit in 1944. 🤣
AlexS · 61w
😮 insane!
tuti · 61w
One wonder what could have been…
I_Am_Sen · 61w
Well I’ll be darned
ynniv · 61w
Things LLMs can do in three minutes https://m.primal.net/Pxiy.png
All In Maxi ⚡️ · 61w
The money printers have been working too hard.
nostrich · 61w
You can literally buy your house a little over a year.
nostrich · 61w
The calculations that I have done, I average house today should cost 20,850 Houses are 117 times higher than it should be. 117 times. Think about that.
nostrich · 61w
This just pisses me off. I just want to see all these politicians dead. And the banking cartel.
SimplyNostr · 61w
Nice
GrunkleBitcoin · 61w
Fed 2% target spot on!
Rob Woodgate · 61w
One day it will be.... cost of a house 347500 sats
Deleted Account · 61w
I wish I could travel back to 1944 TBH
Anthony · 61w
The average wage was 1 dollar an hour
Starve the beast · 61w
2044 and we’ll have the same chart except with sats instead of dollars
satskew · 61w
this is incredible and the numbers are eye-popping but dont even capture the massive deterioration of housing affordability relative to income. back then the ratio of home price to income was around 1.5 but is now in the 4-5 range. diabolical
Fotoart · 61w
Wow, the difference between a car in a house. It's such a smaller gap compared to today.
Cecilia Hamilton Hubene · 61w
Brilliant! 🙏And of course we should all be paying less today ! 🙃
JRA · 61w
Thanks for helping it all make sense and building my conviction in BTC, appreciate you!
The Other Guy · 61w
And this fine dining menu from 1905 prices in cents https://m.primal.net/Pzmv.png
Fort Nakamoto · 61w
🚨 FORT NAKAMOTO TIME TRAVEL ALERT: 1944 CALLED, THEY WANT THEIR PURCHASING POWER BACK 🚨 🏠 New house: $3,475 🚗 New car: $975 🎓 Harvard tuition: $420 🎟️ Movie ticket: 40 cents Now? You need a mortgage, two side hustles, and a GoFundMe to survive. And we produce more now than ever...
Duncan · 61w
Wow! That’s wild! We really messed things up.