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BobTheSubgenius

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21. Sometimes, I'll demonstrate the "showing your age" thing with people I'm thrown together with.

Thu Feb 25, 2021, 02:44 PM

Feb 2021

While I'm shopping - pointing out that $75 for a roast of tenderloin seems kind of ridiculous, for example.

When I tell them that, during my college years, my weekly food budget was $10 and my share of the rent in a NICE house on the W side of Vancouver was $70/month, they are sometimes either semi-incredulous or envious.

Then I tell them that min wage was $1.25 and my student loan budgeted out at $170 a month, and they see the parallel. Kind of a teaching moment for the young, or especially people who resist raising the minimum wage.

Resistance, even though Victoria, where I now live, is nowhere near as expensive as the Kerrisdale neighbourhood where I grew up and also where the place I mentioned was located. Average rent for a 1BR here is $1500-1800. I would love to see the math where that works with current minimum wage.

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Pic Of The Moment: While Arguing Against Minimum Wage Hike, Thune Makes Case For Minimum Wage Hike [View all] EarlG Feb 2021 OP

Eff him. Line cooks generally work long hours, Holidays, and have no benefits. I know. LakeArenal Feb 2021 #1

Now, now 😉 Dream Girl Feb 2021 #16

Ok Grandpa samplegirl Feb 2021 #2

It's just like a repug to give an example form fifty years ago, and Oldem Feb 2021 #3

My daughter is 38 samplegirl Feb 2021 #5

It gets worse... Grins Feb 2021 #8

It wasn't even a real example Major Nikon Feb 2021 #6

yup. i was a waitress in those yrs. tipped wage was $1.48 irrc. mopinko Feb 2021 #7

Minimum wage was $1.05 an hour or very close to that in 1972. louis-t Feb 2021 #26

For restaurant workers it was $1.60 in 1971 Major Nikon Feb 2021 #27

That can't be right. I think I still have some of the paystubs. louis-t Feb 2021 #28

Depends on who you worked for Major Nikon Feb 2021 #29

Most people may not pick up on that fact. Whoopsie! ffr Feb 2021 #4

In 1955 I got 85 cents an hour clerking in a store. BarbD Feb 2021 #9

I wrote about this a while ago. Grins Feb 2021 #10

+1 pandr32 Feb 2021 #14

K&R LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2021 #11

Did he get a percentage of tips? greatauntoftriplets Feb 2021 #12

I made the dollar equivalency argument to a millennial pandr32 Feb 2021 #13

When discussing minimum wage I relate a story JohnnyRingo Feb 2021 #15

I love it when people like Thune mention their restaurant jobs, heckles65 Feb 2021 #17

Perhaps there should be a rule in which, for the first month of any Congressional or Senate service, calimary Feb 2021 #18

it was ok to cut the taxes of the most wealthiest , but its too expensive to have the $15 minimum AllaN01Bear Feb 2021 #19

In 1982 I was making $5.50 an hour as an assistant manager at an auto parts chain store. rickyhall Feb 2021 #20

Sometimes, I'll demonstrate the "showing your age" thing with people I'm thrown together with. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #21

It's theiR 'trickle-down' theory... Justice matters. Feb 2021 #22

If John Tune will show us where, in South Dakota, houses and food can be bought for 1970s prices DFW Feb 2021 #23

Here's my question... yuiyoshida Feb 2021 #24

Here's a thought Fritz Walter Feb 2021 #25

Kick orangecrush Feb 2021 #30

Trickle down? No, let's try trickle up! Aussie105 Feb 2021 #31