Steven Seward wrote:
I will readjust my figures for inflation.
When I was a teenager in the 1970's, I would have been thrilled to make the minimum wage of two dollars an hour. At the time I was pretty thrilled making one dollar an hour delivering newspapers.
Back then I was making 70 cents an hour packing groceries, working after school and Saturdays. I also delivered newspapers at 5 in the morning and it was not a dollar an hour it was by how many customers I had and if they paid when I came around to collect . It never came close to a dollar an hour. I also had to walk three miles to school and it was uphill both ways but if I was feeling brave I could cut across the farmersfield and try to outrun the bull and that would save me a mile.