• @shalafi
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    21 hours ago

    GenX here, guilty. Just started a job for $15/hr. 11-years ago I started an IT job at $16/hr., and that was pretty good, more than I’d ever been paid. Hard to get your head around inflation when your attitudes where concreted when decades younger.

    • Toes♀
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      718 hours ago

      And what’s nuts about that is IT jobs have barely gone up in that time.

      • @solomon42069
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        718 hours ago

        It’s really demoralising scraping by as an IT person in a western democracy, and then realising the outsource contractors your company hired for cheaper have a much better life than you. Simply because their earnings hold up better with the cost of living where they are.