Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agoThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billmessage-squaremessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up185arrow-down1message-squareThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square33linkfedilinkfile-text
Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.
minus-squareentropicdriftlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 hours agoSo they were off by a factor of 2.35 (47 years is 2.35x 20 years)
So they were off by a factor of 2.35 (47 years is 2.35x 20 years)