People Are Sharing Prices From The 20th Century To Show Just How Out Of Hand Prices Are Now (30 Pics)

it has a bathroom, I don't see the issue.

TBF, my grandma didn't get an indoor toilet until the 1970s.

I own a 4 BR, 1 BA house. It works just fine, even when we had 4 adults and a teen living together during Covid.

outhouse sold seperately

C**p in some bushes for over a year, shower at truck stops and the design of a bathroom doesn’t really matter 😂 it’s a home. M

You get a separate "out house".

Was thinking just that. Outdoor bathrooms are still around!

Outhouses would still have been common then.

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All the items that actually cost significant amounts are excluded. This is essentially a shell of a house that you still need to finish, and own land for.

As a US citizen with what's considered very good medical, I still live in terror of a medical emergency or dental surgery. The cost of services has gotten completely untenable. It's all greed based, for profit companies that now own the hospitals, labs and even the ambulances are now usually third party companies.

I am in a bad place financially after a crippling divorce. I am on medicaid (state funded healthcare). I cannot get healthcare in another state with it. I cannot risk making ANY extra money or I will lose my benefits. Before you reply "Just get a better job or a second job", I cannot afford to buy health insurance. As a government employee, we have the MOST expensive health insurance with the WORST coverage I've ever had in my life. I would love to have NHS!!! The tradeoff for Europeans is the amount of taxes that you pay, but I would take it any day of the week. So hard.

My cousin had 3 kids on Medicaid and payed $0 out of pocket and received the same treatment as the insured person in the room next to her. There are programs that help people that are not making much money but you need the financial literacy and some experience navigating government programs to know how to get it.

Thank you... I hope we do too

I am very lucky to work for a great company that runs on "German style" system. My health insurance is free and it is great. I pay about 200 a month for my child to have great insurance. I wish this was the way all over the US.

Yep, we're severely boneheaded about this. The interesting thing is it would be cheaper to have universal coverage. It *has* to be - we already pay more than every other country for health care *per capita*. Insurance companies suck up a lot for their business expenses and profit. Not to mention price gouging from pharmaceutical companies. There's truly *massive* duplication of efforts in that we have many insurance companies and they all have multiple versions of their insurance. Massive waste of money. All that waste could go toward actual health care - without any added taxes. We could do it if we wanted to - we have the benefit if seeing where other countries made mistakes; we could avoid those.

Your health care isn’t “ free”— paid by taxes.

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Did you get health insurance from the Marketplace? I pay $0/month with a $0 deductible. For a copay it's $0/$5, depending on the type of care. To have a child it would be at or less than $1000.

Only the brainwashed right-wing Americans are yelling at you. We leftist Americans dream of what you have! Protect it at all costs!

And then Reagan closed up ⅔ of the beds & services used for mental health care citing that they were only expanded to help returning military members from the Vietnam War and were no longer needed. It's going awesome now, don't you think? 😮‍💨

"Golden fries" are fine but I'm concerned what a "full-flavor" orange drink is

Are you doubting the root beer was delightful?

At the time, the food tasted better, so the adjectives were spot on.

🤖 M E. L I K E. A W E S O M E. A D J E C T I V E S

S i m p l y . c a n n o t . r e s i s t... that cheeseburger!

I bought my house in 1997. It had been on the market for more than a year, and it was decidedly a buyer's market. The price on which we agreed was 3 times my salary at that time. Currently, its market value is 9 times what my salary was in 1997, yet salaries for the exact same job have not tripled. The struggle is real. (My parents' first house, bought in 1967, was priced at about twice my dad's salary. The house they had custom built in 1974 cost 1.5 times his salary.)

Tuition went up with the increasing ease of getting student loans, not with costs/inflation.

Translate that back to the salary of the people building that house, and take into account the costs for the building material, overhead, transportation, number of people necessary to build that house, duration. Then you'll see that none of the workers would have earned the "average salary" and would have never been able to buy such a house. And the ground is not included.

Me seeing that the money I’ve saved for a decent used car at 17 could buy me a new car AND a new house AND 2 years at Harvard.

great, bye!

That is a steal

I’ve seen parking spaces in my city sell for more…these are truly the end times

From their telescopes on mars

Quite possibly.

I really hope not. It's got to give eventually, right? Either that or people need to start getting paid a hell of a lot more than they are now.