That was from December of '21. It would be $15.69 now.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 months ago
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
titanicx@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Another thread put it at 16.14 an hour.
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Not surprised, I just clicked on the first inflation calculator that came up. I think it was the BLS CPI calculator.
And I only did it in dollars from December of '21 until now. Converting back to shillings, either in '21 or Dickensian times, before bringing it forward to today could result in a big difference due to the charging exchange rate between the pound and the dollar.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 months ago
GODSDAMN YOU BRETTON WOODS
Ross_audio@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m not sure that works. There were 20 shillings to the pound.
So £0.75 a week.
This inflation calculator:
www.bankofengland.co.uk/…/inflation-calculator
£75 in 1843 is equivalent to £8,310.96
So 15s then is equivalent to £83.11 a week, £4321.72 a year.
40 hour week (which is implied to be too low). ~£2.08 an hour
So if he worked over 40 hours you’re talking a sub £2/hour wage. Around $2.70 in US money.
I suspect the stat relies on converting to dollars before applying inflation as GBP to USD was about 1 to 5 then instead of about 1 to 1.33
It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.
I think they’re actually making the opposite claim- American wages are just that fucked, rather than Dickens being wrong
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I think who you’re responding to knows that and is saying while doing the math wrong makes their point better it does Dickens wrong.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
JibJab hot dog sign says ‘we wear the chains we forge in life’, a quote from Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, the first of four ghosts to visit Scrooge