SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 hours agoPeople who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertymessage-squaremessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1536arrow-down120
arrow-up1516arrow-down1message-squarePeople who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertySatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 hours agomessage-square81fedilink
minus-squarePerspectivist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·4 hours agoAdjusted for inflation, 11k in the 60s is equivalent to 120k today. You can get a house for that money. Not a big house, but houses weren’t that big back then either.
Adjusted for inflation, 11k in the 60s is equivalent to 120k today. You can get a house for that money. Not a big house, but houses weren’t that big back then either.