Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That was from December of '21. It would be $15.69 now.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Another thread put it at 16.14 an hour.

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    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        GODSDAMN YOU BRETTON WOODS

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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• Ross_audio@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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