• Soullioness
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    15 months ago

    To add to this, a new car in 1938 was $860 according to this, but essential information was left out. What that actually converted to in today’s money $18,709.33 which is a lot less than what I’m paying today but only by about half. I don’t disagree with wanting to get back to this point or better. But the picture seems to assume the reader already knows this?

    • _NoName_
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      15 months ago

      More important, some quick googling says that the average per-capita income for 1938 was $515 (new york per-capita was $822, Mississippi was $205), which another search says was just under $11k. That car would cost an atomic family close to 2 years’ wages.