Posted by wisbaker on September 29, 2012 at 17:05:49 from (184.157.215.49):
In Reply to: $1/hr posted by George Marsh on September 29, 2012 at 16:04:43:
Gee when I milked for the Neighbors in 1977 I only got $2.00/hr, and some folks only paid $1.70/hr for hay work. I was stationed in Greece in 88-89. I heard tails of how the Drachma used to be roughly equivialnt to a dollar and they had coins called Lepktas that were the pennys. The dollar/Drachma ratio when I was there was 1/200. For 450-500 Drachma I'd go to a local Taverna and get 2 big German beers, a pork chop, souvaliki or Calamari and a Greek salad for about $2.50 American. That wasn't as bad as the Isreal an exchange student from there stayed at our farm for 8-9 months (a Jewish girl living on a hog farm) just before she left she gave away all her Isreali money, the inflation was so bad she said it was worthless about 1/20th of what it was when she left home. She said any money she or her parents had in the bank were held in German Marks, US Dollars or Japanese Yen. When I was a kid my dad drove for UPS take home wages for a teamster then was only about $80 a week, heck they get that in a day now.
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