"CTSenVy" (CTSenVy)
07/04/2017 at 11:26 • Filed to: None
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"CTSenVy" (CTSenVy)
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It’s the 4th, let’s not forget about ‘Murica Motors Corp.
PS9
> CTSenVy
07/04/2017 at 11:35 |
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$1900 for a new car!?
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> CTSenVy
07/04/2017 at 11:41 |
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Ah, the Seventies, back when 0-60 in under 16 seconds was a bragging right.
InFierority Complex
> PS9
07/04/2017 at 11:42 |
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$12,000 or so in today’s money.
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CTSenVy
> PS9
07/04/2017 at 11:42 |
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When the Gremlin came out the average salary in the USA was about 7 grand. Still was really cheap.
PyramidHat
> PS9
07/04/2017 at 11:58 |
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About $12K today. Not bad...
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
07/04/2017 at 12:12 |
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Sounds good to me!
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> InFierority Complex
07/04/2017 at 12:13 |
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If you adjusted for inflation in everything, average annual household income at the time would have been equivalent to $200k. No-skill jobs while in school paid the equivalent of $160k today. It’s mind boggling how our incomes have stagnated and declined in the last 40-50 years. Nobody really realizes. Somewhere around 1965-1970 our economy divided and wealth started concentrating. By the 1980s there were conspicuously rich people that TV shows obsessed about. By the 1990s they were starting to hide that as living standards declined.
This was, by the standards of the time and today an exceptionally cheap car.
fintail
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/04/2017 at 12:19 |
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I think the zenith of the American middle class was 1968. By multiple CPI/inflation measures, it has been downhill since then. Federal minimum wage that year was the equivalent of ~$11 today. An $11 minimum wage today would have the Randian morons screaming. There was a difference before people fell for the trickle down lie - the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” line rings true.
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
07/04/2017 at 12:22 |
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I need to get the 4Runner out west so we can legally street race.