a lineman in 1969 made $800,000 per year or more  an uncle, back in 1969, worked as a lineman for $20 per hour. according to the government's official inflation calculator, $20 in 1969 is $171.93 today. but official inflation is drastically lowballed, what with the "core inflation" calculation and other manipulations of the numbers. so let's say $20 per hour in 1969 is like $250 to $300 per hour today. at 40 hours per week, that comes to a wage of $500,000 to $600,000 per year for a lineman. and linemen work lots of overtime, at time and a half equal to $375 to $450 per hour now. so let's say a lineman, in 1969, made the equivalent of $800,000 per year in today's money. other skilled jobs paid similarly in the late 1960s, and even unskilled jobs paid probably the equivalent of $200,000 per year in today's money.   om/ we're getting fucked.
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