Over the years my father has told me a bunch of crazy stories about all the stuff he got up to when he was around 18-19 and recently he was telling me the story of how he almost bought a FOURTH car in 1978, when he was 19 years old. He didn't have new cars, they were all from the 1950s. But how did a kid his age afford so many project cars?
He had a union job at a grocery store. He was making $13 CAD($9.83 USD) an hour in 1978, the equivalent of $56.23($42.53 USD) in 2023.
For stocking shelves. Fuck me running, I would do just about any boring ass retail job if it paid me almost sixty bucks an hour.
And his parents who are now in their 80's bought their house for $16000 CAD when he was born, on a 30 year mortgage. The dirt under their house is now worth a million bucks. What the fuck.