• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Look up “Hell’s Angels” by Hunter Thompson. There’s a chapter where he discusses the economics of being a biker/hippie circa 1970.

    Angels could work six months as a Union stevedore and save up enough to live on the road for two years. A part time waitress could afford to support herself and her musician boyfriend.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 hours ago

      My stepmom “paid her way through college bagging groceries.”

      College tuition now: 30,000/yr

      7.25 (min wage) x 30 (never give full time because laws) x 52 (weeks in a year): 11,310/yr before taxes.

      Thanks for the advice Agnes.