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Receipt for my father's birth in 1949. As he put it yesterday, "I'd say things have changed some over the last 61 years."
Update: To put that in perspective, minimum wage was $0.43 at the time. $75.75 / $0.43 per hr / 40hrs per week ~= 4.4 weeks or about 1 month's working wage. Using the current minimum wage of $7.25 ($7.25*40*4.4) that works out to $1,275 - not exactly expensive by today's standards.
Update: To put that in perspective, minimum wage was $0.43 at the time. $75.75 / $0.43 per hr / 40hrs per week ~= 4.4 weeks or about 1 month's working wage. Using the current minimum wage of $7.25 ($7.25*40*4.4) that works out to $1,275 - not exactly expensive by today's standards.
Did you know about Brownian Motion? Now you do!