alt Hacker NewsIf you were in minimum wage jn the 90s your lifelihood likely didn't rely on Pentium processors.
Also, it is frightening how close that is to current day minimum wage.
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1990-1997 averaged >4% yearly compounded minimum wage hikes, which is probably about where it should have been. The late 90s to today has been <1.25%.
Yep, I had a Cyrix processor in mine during that time. Slackware didn't care.
If you account for inflation it's actually higher than current minimum wage.
Except nobody earns the minimum wage today, it's less than 1/2 of 1% of US labor.
The median full-time wage is now $62,000. You can start at $13 at almost any national retailer, and $15 or above at CVS / Walgreens / Costco. The cashier positions require zero work background, zero skill, zero education. You can make $11-$13 at what are considered bad jobs, like flipping pizzas at Little Caesars.
I was an unemployed student then -- a generous family member gifted me my first Windows PC, and it cost about the same as a used car.