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>>22728759
https://www.measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/relativevalue.php?year_source=1960&amount=1&year_result=2019

The Wage, Income, Household Expenditure Measures

$1 in 1960 has a relative wage of $12.04 paid to an Unskilled Worker today.

$1 in 1960 has a relative wage of $15.69 paid to paid to a Production Worker today.

$1 in 1960 has a relative Per Capita GDP of $19.69 today.

$1 in 1960 would be the same proportion of what the average household spent on Consumer Goods and Services as $9.99 is today.

The Output Measure

$1 in 1960 would be the same proportion of output as measured by GDP that $35.93 is today.

>>6804091
>21
>NEET
>Get offered a place to stay by an old lady (friend of my mom)
>Pay $100/week to sleep on an air mattress in her living room with no personal belongings or space
>She's also very ugly, an alcoholic, and is disrespectful unless she needs something
>Get a job at grocery store within walking distance
>10.70/hour
>1 month later
>Come home and she's getting a tattoo on the dining room table
>Move out less than a month later, overdrafting my bank account to it's limit in order to afford the $800 deposit
>$620/month studio, still withing walking distance of job
>Get promoted to service desk, 11.30
>4-5 months later request transfer
>Put in dairy department, 12/hour
>Also just hit full-time status, insurance, vacation, etc.
>Cool as fuck manager, but work is very physical, and you're always short on time
>Learn to work really fucking hard and work well with everyone around me
>Never late or call in sick
>Bought a car and got my license
>Get promoted to sub-department manager of healthy foods and shit like that
>14/hour
>Live comfortably and am able to buy most simple luxuries without any debt
>Scared that I'm not making the most of my life or that I'm breaking my body too quickly to enjoy the rest of my life
>Also don't want to risk losing the easy living that I've achieved

I do work with some really cool people though. Me and my manager both talk about cryptos a lot, and he's riding pretty high on ETH after doubling his money with LTC. We have a joke where every single time something goes wrong in the store, the solution is just to kill ourselves. I legitimately enjoy my job, but holy fuck I always just want more.