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[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah it did, but back in those days, student loans were federally regulated, the minimum wage was set to an appropriate number, it was possible to buy a house while only working one job.

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Uh, no? The first state to actually ban smoking was in 2002, minimum wage was already too low to get by and literally not a single person I know was able to buy a house on a single income. I graduated college then and it was a massive recession still happening from the dot com crash. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote Nickle and Dimed about how it is impossible to get by on a minimum wage in 2001 and was already calling for a 15 dollar minimum wage. The US made no progress.

[–] Dupree878@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I made $6.75/hr in 2002 as a manager

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 7 points 1 week ago

And that only thanks to lung cancer