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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 5462816, member: 27832&quot;]And then we can argue about whether the minimum wage should be 2.5 or 5 cents an hour.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think your figures are off anyhow, I see <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.096205135&amp;view=1up&amp;seq=32" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.096205135&amp;view=1up&amp;seq=32" rel="nofollow">a price list from 1808</a> that has eggs at 12 cents a dozen, cheese at 10 cents a pound -- and a carpenter earning $1.00 per day. I&#039;ll take today&#039;s prices at today&#039;s wages, thanks, much though I&#039;d love <i>yesterday&#039;s</i> prices at today&#039;s wages.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;m glad I&#039;m not trying to make a living by selling eggs, which have gone up only 10-fold while wages have gone up closer to 100x...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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