Facepalm

2022 fast food cooks occupation is median $13.29x40x4=$2126 a month Waiters/waitresses $14 x40x4=$2,240 https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#35-0000 1959 a cook on the low end made $50-100 a week assume salary of $50x5x4=$1000 month A waiter/waitress $6-10 a day we will assume salary of $6x5 x4=120 a month Page 690-695 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435051428043&seq=718

Median Rent was $71 in 1960 Median Rent 2020 1br $1621 https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-year https://www.rent.com/research/national-apartment-rent-price-analysis/

Fast food cooks 2022 Rent would be 76% monthly pay Cooks 1959 Rent would be 7.1% of pay Waiter/waitress 2022 Rent would be 72% of pay Waiter 1959 Rent would be 59% of pay

Maybe there is something to the point that in America that every sector of stuff needs someone making over a million dollars somewhere in the c-suite in an office in every major city and there is so little people making things locally in small batches just barely making a living.