chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoA ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?www.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square60linkfedilinkarrow-up1351
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minus-squareRoss_audio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·3 days agoI’m not sure that works. There were 20 shillings to the pound. So £0.75 a week. This inflation calculator: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator £75 in 1843 is equivalent to £8,310.96 So 15s then is equivalent to £83.11 a week, £4321.72 a year. 40 hour week (which is implied to be too low). ~£2.08 an hour So if he worked over 40 hours you’re talking a sub £2/hour wage. Around $2.70 in US money. I suspect the stat relies on converting to dollars before applying inflation as GBP to USD was about 1 to 5 then instead of about 1 to 1.33 It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.
minus-squarefinalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 days ago It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point. I think they’re actually making the opposite claim- American wages are just that fucked, rather than Dickens being wrong
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoI think who you’re responding to knows that and is saying while doing the math wrong makes their point better it does Dickens wrong.
minus-squareroscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·3 days agoThat was from December of '21. It would be $15.69 now.
I’m not sure that works. There were 20 shillings to the pound.
So £0.75 a week.
This inflation calculator:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator
£75 in 1843 is equivalent to £8,310.96
So 15s then is equivalent to £83.11 a week, £4321.72 a year.
40 hour week (which is implied to be too low). ~£2.08 an hour
So if he worked over 40 hours you’re talking a sub £2/hour wage. Around $2.70 in US money.
I suspect the stat relies on converting to dollars before applying inflation as GBP to USD was about 1 to 5 then instead of about 1 to 1.33
It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.
I think they’re actually making the opposite claim- American wages are just that fucked, rather than Dickens being wrong
I think who you’re responding to knows that and is saying while doing the math wrong makes their point better it does Dickens wrong.
I think
Unfortunately you aren’t
That was from December of '21. It would be $15.69 now.