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DigitalKungFu t1_j9mr4u1 wrote

Reply to local by wgbh_boston

it's like a chinese restaurant and a bowling alley had a baby and sent it to a science academy

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chance_008 t1_j9mn532 wrote

Reply to comment by fegan104 in Salaries, 1989 by CoolAbdul

Don’t kill me if this research is incorrect but I was curious so I looked up average rent prices from 1989 and today. I found around $350 for 1989 and $2700 for today. Using your figures above the minimum wage employee would spend about 21.8% of their yearly Income on rent compared to 103.8% of their annual income in 2023.

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fegan104 t1_j9ml67v wrote

Reply to Salaries, 1989 by CoolAbdul

In 1989 MA minimum wage was $3.75/hr, so 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year adds up to $7,800. Adjusted for inflation that would be $19,269.

In 2023 minimum wage in MA $15.00/hr, so 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year adds up to $31,200.

Not a particularly meaningful insight but interesting to get a rough sense of how it stacks up.

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Opposite_Match5303 t1_j9mkmzv wrote

Reply to comment by OperationSpringAwake in If you’ve noticed some protests for solidarity with Iranians going on, this is one of the groups organizing them! by ShahsMan

It wasn't the end of North Korea. Who would attack a country with a nuke?

You're being too unspecific with "it": yes, CIA-caused regime changed happened dozens of times in the last century. Yes, targeted sanctions work for convincing a regime to change concrete policy: the original JCPOA was a great example. But what you're describing is sanctions and external pressure convincing a regime to dissolve its own existence, which has arguably literally never happened (maybe the end of Apartheid in South Africa would count).

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