Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billmessage-squaremessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1196arrow-down134file-text
arrow-up1162arrow-down1message-squareThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square93fedilinkfile-text
Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.
minus-squareVince@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down2·2 months agoLooks like you have to go back to 1979 for it to be true
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoSo they were off by a factor of 2.35 (47 years is 2.35x 20 years)
Looks like you have to go back to 1979 for it to be true
So they were off by a factor of 2.35 (47 years is 2.35x 20 years)