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A mildly interesting list of proposed amendments that didn't pass (lemmy.world)
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I saw this circulating around and thought it was an interesting read.

Some of these are horrendous, some are funny, and a few made me think "Hmm, maybe not a bad idea"

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[โ€“] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

You:

The inflation calculators you use are wrong

Also you:

Except that I'm not focusing on "inflation."

Look at the 1960 figures. That meant that a high school graduate with no particular skills could live a pretty good life and support a family working 40 hours a week. Today it's common to require two incomes to keep a family going.

Cool, but it's helpful to state your premises up front. That situation was viable well into the 70s, after which Reagan-era policies completely decoupled real income from productivity, and started to fall apart. By the mid 90s it was all but gone.