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Off Topic/Non-philatelic Disc. : We were the working poor!

 

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14 Aug 2020
07:11:24pm

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My Sisters Granddaughter graduated this year from a prestigious Boston college and was hired by a bank as a trainee for $100,000 a year. I told my Sister we were the working poor !I Don't Want To See

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Dialysis, damned if you do...dead if you don't

14 Aug 2020
08:40:54pm
re: We were the working poor!

Inflation is insidious - $100,000 in 2020 dollars is the same as $3,820 in 1913 dollars.
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15 Aug 2020
09:24:02am

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re: We were the working poor!

In 1964 i was offered a job at IBM..they were hiring for the coming System 360 computers...one phone call from them 75 dollars a week..take it or leave it. I took it , 52 miles to work each day and 52 back...good thing gas was cheap.

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14 Aug 2020
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My Sisters Granddaughter graduated this year from a prestigious Boston college and was hired by a bank as a trainee for $100,000 a year. I told my Sister we were the working poor !I Don't Want To See

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re: We were the working poor!

Inflation is insidious - $100,000 in 2020 dollars is the same as $3,820 in 1913 dollars.
Don

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re: We were the working poor!

In 1964 i was offered a job at IBM..they were hiring for the coming System 360 computers...one phone call from them 75 dollars a week..take it or leave it. I took it , 52 miles to work each day and 52 back...good thing gas was cheap.

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