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southdenverhoo

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In 1971 I was a shovel laborer--I dug ditches--for a pipe-laying contractor


I made $4.50 per hour, pretty good wages for the low man on the totem pole on that crew. At that time a basic Chevy C-10 fleetside pick-up was (I just looked this up) $2,967. that translates to 659 hours of work--about 16.5 weeks.

Today, a green hand doing that job might, if he worked for as generous a boss as I did*, get $15 an hour. Today a basic as hell new 2019 Chevy Silverado 1500 is going for $31,982 at a local dealer. That's 2,132 hours of our hypothetical updated southdenverhoo's labor. About 53 weeks.

*William A. Hazel, Inc. Chantilly VA (although it was Centreville, then.)

working man has gotten squeezed and it makes him amenable to all sorts of shit, depending on his predispositions. Specifically, Trump or Bernie.

(In response to this post by Shenhoo)

Posted: 02/20/2020 at 4:57PM



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