And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
“The ultimate test and measuring stick of wealth is time. What remains scarce when all else becomes abundant is our minutes, hours, days, and years. Time is the only resource that cannot be recycled, stored, duplicated, or recovered. Money is most fundamentally tokenized time.” More here… https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/time-prices.html
Cooked on site, hot and ready unlike today where it's pre-cooked and kept in a tray of hot water or as what one gets at commercial burger joints luke warm or cold meat stale bun little to no ketchup and mustard & maybe 1 pickle.
In 1970 at age 15, I worked at McDonald's for $1.25 an hour (and was glad to have the opportunity) and a hamburger cost 19 cents. A cheeseburger cost 24 cents. Only white doods worked there and there was no lollygagging. From order to delivery took less than a minute every dam time.
I wonder what percentage of a day's pay (min wage for the day) that 19 cent hamburger took?
ReplyDelete“The ultimate test and measuring stick of wealth is time. What remains scarce when all else becomes abundant is our minutes, hours, days, and years. Time is the only resource that cannot be recycled, stored, duplicated, or recovered. Money is most fundamentally tokenized time.”
DeleteMore here…
https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/time-prices.html
Cooked on site, hot and ready unlike today where it's pre-cooked and kept in a tray of hot water or as what one gets at commercial burger joints luke warm or cold meat stale bun little to no ketchup and mustard & maybe 1 pickle.
ReplyDeleteHere's a close estimate:
ReplyDelete1958 U.S. minimum wage: $1
In 2020 dollars: $9.02
19% in 1958 wages. Anywhere from 40 to >50% in today's inflated fiat.
And yet we, as a country, refuse to increase the minimum wage that we pay.
DeleteBack in 1960, my family lived in the Syracuse, NY area and we had Carroll's 15 cent hamburgers.
ReplyDeleteAlso in 1962, my hourly wage as a lifeguard at a lake was 99 cents per hour.
Seems like in 1964 (Santa Ana, CA) I made the minimum wage of $1.45 plus tips from the waitresses.
DeleteReal beef with no vax or chicken by-products.
ReplyDeleteI can remember a little joint in SE Portland that still had 19 cent hamburgers in 1968,
ReplyDeleteit was called Whizburger.
Florida 1070 White Castle burger was 10 cents. Use to buy them by the dozen and go to the drive inn!
ReplyDeleteThere are still GREAT burger joints but not for you blue boys in Blue areas.
ReplyDeleteI remember 12¢ burgers and 15¢ cheeseburgers at Mickey D's
ReplyDeleteIn 1970 at age 15, I worked at McDonald's for $1.25 an hour (and was glad to have the opportunity) and a hamburger cost 19 cents. A cheeseburger cost 24 cents. Only white doods worked there and there was no lollygagging. From order to delivery took less than a minute every dam time.
ReplyDeleteok boomer...
DeleteOnly white men and no lollygagging... heard loud and clear.