| irstupid said: Your the one who refered to them as dead-end jobs. I brought them up because they represented high-school and college kids wages. Most high-school and College kids make roughly $10/hr if they have a job or less. Are they not gamers? Are they not the ones buying consoles. I bought the Wii, 360 and PS3 when I was in college and was only making $10/hr when I was working. |
I can't make it any more clearer to you.
If a jobs maximum wage is the same now as it was in 1996, the jobs maximum pay has gotten worse.
Conversely, if a kid was making $10 an hour in 1996, they were actually being paid very well.
| irstupid said: My cousins as I said currently make the same and they need to buy a PS4 or some other system/s of choice. It's not the largest year span being only like 10 years. But I asked older lifeguards when i started and it had been $10/hr for as long as theyr emember, so i'm assuming for a long time typical HS/College kids make roughly that. And thus those aged kids BUYING consoles from N64 era had to also save up money. They only had to work 20-30 hours, versus todays kid having to work 30-40 hours depending on the console of choice. |
Again, the maximum wage for the job SHOULD have increased over the years, because it hasn't, the job's pay has gotten worse, $10 an hour in 1996 would be the same as earning $14.66 now, earning $10 an hour now, would be the same as earning $6.82 in 1996.
The cost of consoles has not increased, the value of the dollar has decreased, because they have not adjusted the maximum wage, the employer has in actual fact, REDUCED THE MAXIMUM WAGE.
Because they haven't adjusted along with inflation, while your cousin is only getting $10 now, if you had the same job in 1996 you would have been getting $14.66 by todays standards.
I'll try and make it as clear as possible in one line.
JUST BECAUSE A PERSON EARNED $10 AN HOUR 10 YEARS AGO DOES NOT MEAN THEY EARNED THE SAME AS YOU 10 YEARS LATER.
Look at it another way, I had a great grandfather in the US, he still remembers the days of being paid $30 a week for 60 hours work, if employers had all done the same as the lifeguards employers, and not increased pay rates to match inflation, he would still be earning $30 a week for 60 hours work, while kids sit around complaining about being on 'just' $10 an hour. Yes it's on the extreme side of examples but just because the difference isn't as great between 1996 and 2014 does not mean there isn't one.
| irstupid said: I'm not talking about dead end job guys who have been working at Walmart for 40 years. I'm talking about an AGE group of people who when they are 16-22 they are making like $10/hr. To them the console price has increased, games have increased, controllers have increased, online gaming, ect. All new prices or more. Sure those teenagers grow up and make real money later on, but that age demographic (which most seem to equate to gamers) are stuck at the measly $10/hr paygrade. |
Again, the price of games and consoles has not increased, the value of the dollar has decreased because of inflation.
$1 now would barely get you a soda, in 1996 $1 would have easilly gotten you two, because the dollar was WORTH MORE in 1996. ($1.47 to be exact)
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