Comment on How Did Anyone Beat This In The Arcade?

• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Back when people were making a buck or two an hour though

  source

  • jettrscga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    $3.10 minimum wage in 1980. Equivalent to ~$11.50 per hour today, higher than today’s minimum wage.

    source

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The effective minimum wage in 2019 was $11.80. It’s important to talk about these things in context, so we are better able to address the correct problem.

      source

      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Glad ours is $15.45/hr

        source
  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I was just commenting on inflation in general

    source