Just a reminder that the comm has moved to !historyphotos@piefed.social
They literally had this but fucked up the climate, future investions, infrastructure and pensions anyways
They got rich by doing all that. Well their kids.
Does everyone on lemmy just equate “old” with “Boomer”?
Boomers were the people who were born after 1945, during the baby boom after the second World War. The people in this picture were, if they had kids born after 1945, the parents of boomers.
No one said anything about boomers?
Today that list would be 16 euros or something.
Yeah you’re close. Ball park for Lidl where I do most of my shopping:
5lbs of sugar €5
Bread €1
2 quarts of milk €2.50
6 oranges €2.50
Oatmeal €1.80
Coffee €4
Wasn’t that the time when money was based on precious shiny metals instead of imaginary garbage and farts?
Kinda, but not for domestic transactions.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2017/november/why-us-no-longer-follows-gold-standard
