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.

With Dijon mustard!

You could afford a house and got a free or cheap education

The state has sold off everything in your lifetime to keep your taxes low, including housing. Which you bought and now own.

Millennials are generation rent with a government renting back what it sold as taxes rise.

And the cold war is still going on, what is it about Gen X that makes them think it stopped. Putin is at war in Europe right now. The cold war only ever paused.

Proxy wars didn’t stop with Vietnam, the cold war didn’t stop with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

You get to experience the events of the world while being comparatively rich.

You got to experience the only decade or so without a cold war threat while millennials experience the threat of Russia and an increasing threat from China.

And millennials were told as children the world would burn if we did nothing. Gen X and the Boomers did nothing.

Yes it sucks.

But you had it good, and politically you’ve fucked us recently. After being previously politically apathetic.

We’ve got a world to repair and it remains to be seen if Millennials will actually move past apathy into fixing it with Gen Z or continuing to fuck it up like Gen Z.

It’s based on Hamlet. So Shakespeare, not the bible.