<![CDATA[RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/115664123221310113]]>RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/115664123221310113

today’s :

❝ Time for your annual reminder that, according to A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit makes 15 shillings a week.

Adjusted for inflation, that's $530.27/wk, $27,574/yr, or $13.50/ hr.

Most Americans on minimum wage earn less than a Dickensian allegory for destitution. ❞

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/037b45e4-9635-4698-9053-a9f91170d992/re-https-mastodon.social-@veroniqueb99-115664123221310113RSS for NodeTue, 10 Nov 2026 15:11:11 GMTFri, 05 Dec 2025 05:14:10 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/115664123221310113 on Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:49:44 GMT]]>@blogdiva to be pedantic, I think that the hourly wage would have been lower, since at the time A Christmas Carol was published working days were significantly longer (I'm not sure about clerks, but industrial workers had 60 to 96 hours weeks, rather than the 40 hours week used in the calculation).

still the yearly wage should compare correctly, I think

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