Comments on: My first job https://wimminz.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/my-first-job/ Wimminz Sun, 08 Apr 2018 01:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bob k. mando https://wimminz.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/my-first-job/#comment-9740 Mon, 03 Jul 2017 21:47:43 +0000 http://wimminz.wordpress.com/?p=5687#comment-9740 yeah, that last bit is the real killer. the way the central banks have destroyed purchasing power WITHIN each nation.

there’s an old Clark Gable / Barbara Stanwyck movie from 1950 called “To Please A Lady”. interesting only because it’s a movie about back-in-the-day circle track racing … and they mention purses and car prices back then.

iirc, he could win $5,000 from a single race and could buy a midget car, ready for the green flag, for ~$9,000.

hell, you can’t even hardly find $5,000 to win anymore and tires for something like a Super Late Model can set you back nearly a grand for four. just an engine can cast you $50,000.

USD don’t go nearly so far as it used too either.

]]> By: wimminz https://wimminz.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/my-first-job/#comment-9738 Mon, 03 Jul 2017 14:47:10 +0000 http://wimminz.wordpress.com/?p=5687#comment-9738 BTW as a follow up to myself, 55 p an hour (before tax) call it 45p after tax, when a pint of beer was 41 p, a packet of 20 fags was 32 p, and a gallon of petrol was 77 p, so my 37.6 hour working week as a fucking just out of school apprentice account clerk earned me £16.75 takehome which was enough to buy ….

16.75 / 0.41 = 40.8 pints (today at £4 a pint thats £163)

16.75 / 0.32 = 52 packs of fags (today at £5.50 a pack thats £286)

16.75 / 0.77 = 21.7 gallons of gas (today at £1.17 a litre thats £116)

But it was also a fair chunk of a *decent* £4k house, 4000 / 16.75 = 238 weeks or 4.6 years wages.

And 300 quid for a *good* car (mint 1303 beetle) so 300 / 16.75 = 18 weeks wages

these were the shit old days of the economy eh…

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