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MAHDOOD · 51w
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 · 51w
This is what unfunded “social programmes” took from us.
Henny B · 51w
Under 2 cents per egg 😳 and I'll bet most eggs were high quality at the time
₿oniz23⚡️🏴‍☠️🇮🇹 · 51w
Oh my god 😳😳😱 hi jeff nice to meet you 🤝😉🤟
Des Imoto マキシ · 51w
And everything was beautiful.
Ken Berry, MD · 51w
All these things have went up in value so much! 🧐
William ₿ Travis · 51w
Jeff, what was the average monthly income at that time?
metadavid · 51w
Damn, Harvard wasn’t cheap back then either when you look at relative prices
Allen · 51w
My uncle has the receipt from when he was born in the 1940s. I think it was like $52.
Rocking Lazy JM ranch · 51w
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 · 51w
Harvard Tuition $420 Harvard was lit in 1944. 🤣
AlexS · 51w
😮 insane!
tuti · 51w
One wonder what could have been…
I_Am_Sen · 51w
Well I’ll be darned
ynniv · 51w
Things LLMs can do in three minutes https://m.primal.net/Pxiy.png
All In Maxi ⚡️ · 51w
The money printers have been working too hard.
nostrich · 51w
You can literally buy your house a little over a year.
nostrich · 51w
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 · 51w
This just pisses me off. I just want to see all these politicians dead. And the banking cartel.
Simply Greeny · 51w
Nice
GrunkleBitcoin · 51w
Fed 2% target spot on!
Rob Woodgate · 51w
One day it will be.... cost of a house 347500 sats
Deleted Account · 51w
I wish I could travel back to 1944 TBH
Anthony · 51w
The average wage was 1 dollar an hour
Starve the beast · 51w
2044 and we’ll have the same chart except with sats instead of dollars
satskew · 51w
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 · 51w
Wow, the difference between a car in a house. It's such a smaller gap compared to today.
Cecilia Hamilton Hubene · 51w
Brilliant! 🙏And of course we should all be paying less today ! 🙃
JRA · 51w
Thanks for helping it all make sense and building my conviction in BTC, appreciate you!
The Other Guy · 51w
And this fine dining menu from 1905 prices in cents https://m.primal.net/Pzmv.png
Fort Nakamoto · 51w
🚨 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 · 50w
Wow! That’s wild! We really messed things up.