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<blockquote data-quote="OptimusPrime" data-source="post: 1068404" data-attributes="member: 35063"><p>Some of you old timers could use some perspective. Don't know when you started, but I figured you probably have 25 years in. In comparison of 1987 to 2011(that is the last year the calculator uses) something costing $8.50 is now around $16.50. Gas was around .95 a gallon. It's now 4X that. A new worker could easily use 2 gallons getting to work. (Not unlikely they have a crappy car with bad mileage) So roughly five of the hours a week they work just go to gas. And the clunker probably burns/leaks oil as well. </p><p></p><p>This whole idea that somehow this generation is just some lazy "whipper snappers" is asinine. Minimum wage back then was $3.35. You were making over double that. You aren't some Clint Eastwood curmudgeon type badass who roughed it through some tough times. The exact opposite. You were getting paid extremely well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OptimusPrime, post: 1068404, member: 35063"] Some of you old timers could use some perspective. Don't know when you started, but I figured you probably have 25 years in. In comparison of 1987 to 2011(that is the last year the calculator uses) something costing $8.50 is now around $16.50. Gas was around .95 a gallon. It's now 4X that. A new worker could easily use 2 gallons getting to work. (Not unlikely they have a crappy car with bad mileage) So roughly five of the hours a week they work just go to gas. And the clunker probably burns/leaks oil as well. This whole idea that somehow this generation is just some lazy "whipper snappers" is asinine. Minimum wage back then was $3.35. You were making over double that. You aren't some Clint Eastwood curmudgeon type badass who roughed it through some tough times. The exact opposite. You were getting paid extremely well. [/QUOTE]
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