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Chris :
$12 an hour in 1980 is the equivalent of $50 an hour today! Find me an entry level position that’s paying $104k a year.
2025-11-29 17:30:35
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user668177611356 :
We just didn’t buy that much stuff
2025-11-29 16:37:16
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shoshannafeirce :
I’m tired of the younger generations not having a true sense of history. They use magical thinking about the past. We had ONE car per family. We had ONE tv in the living room. We had ONE rotary phone line.
2025-11-30 08:12:39
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⭐️ Oh My Dog! ⭐️ :
I got paid the minimum wage of $4.25 in 1993. Inflation adjusted, that’s $9.53/hr now. Our minimum is still $7.25. We care even less about workers now, and it’s getting worse and worse.
2025-11-29 22:20:46
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BrandisherofAwesome :
The pay was closer to the cost of living back then. It was difficult but not unattainable. College was free or nearly so and healthcare was much more manageable to afford. Now, the pay has lagged by decades to the cost of living, healthcare is diabolically expensive & college saddles one with lifetime debt. Those two things are the biggest reasons why ppl have no chance of escaping poverty or lower middle class. It also makes it impossible to buy a house or think about having kids. It was hard in the 80s. It’s impossible now.
2025-12-02 07:34:53
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🐱Kathy🐱 🌷🌸🌻 :
Yep, my first job paid $2.90 (1979) the house I grew up in was 800 sq ft. One tiny bathroom.
2025-11-30 16:17:25
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michaellynch361 :
Rent was cheaper because I had roommates
2025-11-29 16:46:47
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IdahoXgen68 :
they never factor inflation
2025-11-29 17:02:20
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JHamaker73 :
One major difference. When I graduated HS minimum wage was $4.75 per hour. A unit at a community college was $5. So you could easily pay for a full year at a community college - including books with just a part time minimum wage summer job. It is roughly 4-5 x more expensive for the same community college year today. Even with California's higher minimum wage, it is still about 2x higher than minimum wage. Plus all other expenses are significantly higher in relation to wages.
2025-11-29 22:31:11
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Jake :
The fact that it is harder now does not invalidate the hard of back then. It is much harder for a much larger number of people now. Let's not pretend otherwise.
2025-11-29 22:00:55
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Joe :
It’s all relative, demand and pay will always work the same. But the 80’s were much simpler, I think we all can agree. My minimum wage when I started as a bag boy was $3.15 an hour. WOW.
2025-11-29 16:05:16
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Curt :
These TikToks on how great the 70s were. Sure, as a kid it may have seen great, we lived under the umbrella of our parents, hopefully protected. War raged on for half the decade, oil embargo’s, political corruption, hostage situation, assassination attempts, huge inflation. It’s all perspective.
2025-11-29 22:51:10
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Helen Agee :
My dad retired at 52 in 84 making $35000 a year. He worked for the government and was required to retire by 55. He had to start a new job at 53. Our house was purchased in 1977 was only 17,500 but it was also 1100 sf and had no garage. This was in central Florida and it had no central heat and air.
2025-11-29 22:39:00
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Gayle Hires :
I paid $92,500. For my 1200 square foot house in 1990. Today the same 1200 square foot house got appraised and sold for $350,000. It’s not bigger than it was when it was cheaper. Wages have not gone up as much as home prices.
2025-11-30 16:59:46
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ricky.lee.hey.shut.the.cat.up :
Yeah, my college rent was $395 (split two ways) and I made $8/hr at UPS. So …
2025-11-29 21:23:14
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Ed 🇺🇸 ✝️ Gen❌ :
Nobody supported their family and minimum wage. In the 80s or any other time. Minimum wage was the starting wage for when you were in grade school or high school.
2025-11-29 17:09:06
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Wheelchair Architect :
I made $3.35 in high school but gas was also .84 cents.
2025-11-29 21:01:48
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Beck - 20th Century Pop :
People also live differently now. We pay for services and subscriptions and cell phones as if they’re necessities. My family had one car in the 80s and my parents only had a credit card for emergencies. We always had enough of what we needed but never extra.
2025-11-29 21:41:41
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islaD :
I grew up in the '70's, one of 5 kids because birth control was outlawed until 1964 in my state. My father was a teacher who drove a school bus route to and from school because they could barely feed us all. My mother had to return to work after the final kid - again, to be able to feed the 5 of us. It was not fun or nostalgic. It was hard and incredibly stressful.
2025-11-30 18:29:26
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Gen❌traSalty :
I turned 18 in '83. Minimum wage was $3.35. I had my own apartment, single bedroom, nothing fancy. Cost $475. So no, rent was not $300. And definitely couldn’t rent a house for $300. 1984 me and 2 roommates rented a house. It was $800 month plus all utilities.
2025-11-29 22:03:56
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Geekamicus :
I paid $155/mo in rent in 1988. It was an efficiency. A luxury efficiency (dining room, no bedroom) but an efficiency. I was also making $17k a year and knowing that wasn't great, but really not bad.
2025-11-29 23:11:02
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zahkar201 :
My first studio apt was $400/month & at $4.25/hr it was rough to pay bills. Had to get a roommate and we still struggled. I would say we tore through couch cushions for spare change, but we didn’t even have a couch. Struggle was finally searching up $1.05 but still couldn’t afford a 99¢ whopper because tax put it at $1.09 and that effin whopper was gonna be the meal for the day. These people today crying about struggling don’t know what real struggle is
2025-12-04 14:01:39
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