Just a reminder, your average factory worker today can buy a pound of butter with only 20 minutes of labor, compared to only 100 years ago and that same amount of food would have taken 3 hours of labor to earn.

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@jaelisp a pound of butter in early 1900 was 70 cents. Your typical blue collar (factory) worker at that time made 25c an hour. So would take about...

@freemo Do you happen to know what the number was for say, 1975?

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@VoxDei not off hand, but it wouldnt be too hard to research

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