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Minimum wage in 1960 was $1/hour. The quarters were made of silver. The melt value of a silver quarter today is ~$12.50. The equivalent minimum wage in the 1960 was thus $50/hour.
This also shows just how fucked our inflation metrics are.
There's no reality in which your currency is separated from any tangible real life value and still maintains its integrity. Fiat was always a scam.
Something something rumpelstiltskin.
Oy vey!!!
getting rid of the gold standard did that. everyone needs to think about money entirely differently than they currently do. Money now is a depreciating asset.
A pound of sirloin steak was $0.62 in 1960. Today it is $17.09 as of April 2026.
Just over a half hours work. That would imply a minimum wage of at least $34. Still way higher than anything the official stats say.
You also have to factor that the 1960s meat was local butcher and now we’re importing meat globally. If anything it’s even worse.
It's the truth.
Americans (or us Canadians) "don't want" terrible jobs that pay shit. Drive delivery 10 hours a day for 100 bucks? NTY! You'd need to swipe food from the deliveries just to eat :o But Jeets will do it, live 5-6 in a 2 bedroom apartment & so on.
Because their alternative is hell on earth aka India. A hell of their own making, of course, and they will turn your country into that same hell, too. Corporations and elites are leveraging the horrible conditions of the third world against first world labor. It's not your fault that Honduras is a shithole, but you are going to suffer the consequences regardless (in suppressed wages and imported cultural decline).
If your country is developed, then all immigration is evil and harms you. If it's not harming you, then it's not your country.
No "all" immigration, bringing in the "best and brightest" as well as the affluent is a great idea!
Letting in the scum of the 3rd world without restrictions = suicide. That's the Liberal Party of Canada's mission for 11 years now. 1 million per year for the past 5 years & counting in a nation that once had only 35 million people. That's like 50 million "legal" immigrants into the USA, eh? Plus the illegals on top of that.
No it isn't.
Those "best and brightest" will still want to bring their families and friends, who will also want to bring their families and friends.
Additionally, poaching the "best and brightest" from the entire world leaves the rest of the world with severe brain drain, meaning that the rest of the world will remain a shithole, which in turns means they want to invade areas that aren't shitholes.
There are 2nd and 3rd order and beyond effects to everything. We've run the experiment: it doesn't work.
It worked for over a hundred years though. Only let in people who bring something to the table. Even if it's just "I want to become a lawful Citizen & help the nation prosper."
They (Liberals and Dems) changed that to: let them ALL in! And guess what? those sub-human people will also bring hordes of sub-human friends and relatives too.
In the 80's? My cousin married a fellow from Venezuela. He was already a Canadian citizen, eh? Together they sponsored 7-8 more family members, maybe more. It was a wealthy family (shoemaking industry) and they saw the writing on the wall down there. Every one of them was a professional of some sort, nicest bunch of folks!
More appropriate to say "The system tolerated it for a hundred years" than "it worked for over a hundred years".
Canadian, eh? Ask the First Nations their stance on a bunch of people from another ethnicity and language and values coming in and taking over, even if they were more competent than the average First Nation-er.
The past 100 years got us to where we are now.
Free White persons of good character is the only immigration policy I'm willing to accept at this point. I'm willing to entertain the idea of carving out an exception for the Japanese, but only after we get back to a 95%+ White population.
So many pro-immigration point to the early 20th century as a success story regarding the flood of european immigrants to America and the resultant melting pot.
The problem is, it's a total lie. What they leave out is that it was almost one-for-one immigration back and forth across the ocean - europeans would come to America to make thier fortune, fail, and then go back, automatically weeding out all the loosers.
We no longer have that. We haven't had that since post-ww2, if I'm being very fucking generous.
People were allowed to flood in because they never realized 'give me your tired, hungry, poor' was blatant lies and propaganda.
The only way immigration works is if you have some way to get rid of all the loosers. Otherwise, you get where we are now.
Not to mention that even the ones who stayed weren't all improvements. We have the FBI today because of Italian immigrants then. America wasn't founded by Sicilians or the Irish.
Because as far as they're concerned we're all nothing but cattle.
feminism, illegals and DEI.. killing off the american dream.
“Illegal aliens don’t pay taxes or contribute in any way to the country they invaded.”
Why do all of these illegals drive nicer cars than me though?
They’re driving the cars Americans don’t want!
Not to mention they don't need as high wages since they get all forms of government handouts.
Straight facts, as always. 👍
Poverty wages are intentional.
YOU DAMN KIDS ARE JUST LAZY!
They keep saying that, even as Trump takes away health subsidies and cuts $45 billion in Medicare.
Meanwhile, we've spent at least $35 billion on bombing Iran to get nothing in return.
Blowing up Israel’s enemies is its own reward
Insightful