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  • Ross_audio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    331·
    20 天前

    I’m not sure that works. There were 20 shillings to the pound.

    So £0.75 a week.

    This inflation calculator:

    https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

    £75 in 1843 is equivalent to £8,310.96

    So 15s then is equivalent to £83.11 a week, £4321.72 a year.

    40 hour week (which is implied to be too low). ~£2.08 an hour

    So if he worked over 40 hours you’re talking a sub £2/hour wage. Around $2.70 in US money.

    I suspect the stat relies on converting to dollars before applying inflation as GBP to USD was about 1 to 5 then instead of about 1 to 1.33

    It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.

    • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      212·
      20 天前

      It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.

      I think they’re actually making the opposite claim- American wages are just that fucked, rather than Dickens being wrong