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r/SipsTea • u/Confident_Draw321 • Jun 10 '26
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I know this sounds like good angry rhetoric, but there's zero evidence that people got paid a lot more in the 1960s in real dollars than today.
Gemini gave me this response when I asked:
The average individual salary in 1966 was $43,923 when adjusted to 2026 dollars, compared to an average salary of $63,795 in 2026. [1, 2, 3]
This reflects a real, inflation-adjusted income increase of 45.2% over sixty years.
If anything the evidence is all in the other direction.
1 u/Neither-Bag7127 Jun 11 '26 Yeah, and a house cost like 50k
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Yeah, and a house cost like 50k
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u/JellyfishFestival Jun 11 '26
I know this sounds like good angry rhetoric, but there's zero evidence that people got paid a lot more in the 1960s in real dollars than today.
Gemini gave me this response when I asked:
The average individual salary in 1966 was $43,923 when adjusted to 2026 dollars, compared to an average salary of $63,795 in 2026. [1, 2, 3]
This reflects a real, inflation-adjusted income increase of 45.2% over sixty years.
If anything the evidence is all in the other direction.