Back in 1960 this story is in the UK and we were never paid in dollars.
If a minimum wage worker wanted a jaguar his mam would have clipped him round the ear and told him to get a grip.
Edit: there’s some confusion that I’ve conflated minimum wage with teenagers… But here. In the North of England, we still have multigenerational houses in the working class… And more than that. If I act like a dafty, my Mam would still happily travel across town to clip me and I’m an old man.
If a minimum wage worker wanted a jaguar his mam would have clipped him round the ear and told him to get a grip.
That’s a bit beside the point, innit? Whether the wealth inequality started high enough that it was unattainable then, it’s surely a bigger gap now, right?
Back in 1960 this story is in the UK and we were never paid in dollars.
If a minimum wage worker wanted a jaguar his mam would have clipped him round the ear and told him to get a grip.
Edit: there’s some confusion that I’ve conflated minimum wage with teenagers… But here. In the North of England, we still have multigenerational houses in the working class… And more than that. If I act like a dafty, my Mam would still happily travel across town to clip me and I’m an old man.
That’s a bit beside the point, innit? Whether the wealth inequality started high enough that it was unattainable then, it’s surely a bigger gap now, right?
I like the way you buy into the myth that the only people who make minimum wage are teenagers.
That’s a mythical myth that isn’t true. Hence, calling it a myth.
I like the way you assume that anyone in the UK who has a mam that would clip them is a teenager.
You made a massive assumption on how the working class lives here.
Well yeah, gotta denigrate the youth so we can ignore systemic problems.