• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    12 hours ago

    Reminder: the claim that Bob Crachits pay, when adjusted for inflation, is twice the American minimum wage gets economists so wound up that they try to argue that he was comparitively paid well despite not being able to feed his family at Christmas.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      22 hours ago

      No it doesn’t, they won’t change their tune until you tie them down onto a guillotine and threaten to release the blade … and even then they’d probably try to coerece or bribe you from doing it.