Oiconomia@feddit.de to Damn, that's interesting!@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoPredictions on the state of work in the year 2000feddit.deexternal-linkmessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1517arrow-down12
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minus-squarePerogiBoi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up18·8 months agoThis is so uniquely depressing. They were accurate on my annual wage in 2024 yet they assumed I’d be working less than 40 hours 😭
minus-squareBonehead@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoI think you misread that, because $40,000 in 1966 is roughly $385,000 in today’s dollars. Edit: conversely, $40,000 in today’s dollars would be $4,176.25 in 1966.
minus-squareaberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 months agoPretty sure that’s the joke
minus-squarePerogiBoi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 months agoThat was the joke. I make $40k today.
minus-squareSabata11792@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-28 months agoI got that wage, but not accounting for inflation…
minus-squareOiconomia@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoWith the 1966 labour share of income you probably would be working way less (or making way more)
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoIs it really accurate? They wrote this is '66 about the year '00, which is 34 years. It’s been another 24 years since their prediction date.
This is so uniquely depressing. They were accurate on my annual wage in 2024 yet they assumed I’d be working less than 40 hours 😭
I think you misread that, because $40,000 in 1966 is roughly $385,000 in today’s dollars.
Edit: conversely, $40,000 in today’s dollars would be $4,176.25 in 1966.
Pretty sure that’s the joke
That was the joke. I make $40k today.
I got that wage, but not accounting for inflation…
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With the 1966 labour share of income you probably would be working way less (or making way more)
Is it really accurate? They wrote this is '66 about the year '00, which is 34 years. It’s been another 24 years since their prediction date.