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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the “ML” influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In 1960 the US minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the average US home was $11,000.00. The tuition at Harvard was $1,525.00

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What was the median wage at the time?

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

https://www.nytimes.com/1960/04/15/archives/income-of-5300-is-median-in-us-average-for-families-and-individuals.html

So around $2.5 an hour if we are assuming 40 hours.