The Force Awakens Box Office Thread: $1,73B

[Wonktonodi]

Insidb said:

Wonktonodi said:

minimum wage in 1939, $0.25 adjusted for inflation that's $4.25 today. So in other aspects, compared to when the movie came out and shortly after people even with minimum wage are better off. While on hour of work for many people won't neccisarily cover a movie and a little more, there are many more people working and there are matiness and bargains people can find to make up the difference.

Also a movie like GWTW has kind of seen it all in terms of how the american wages are. considering it's release ans rereleases 1939, 1942, 1947, 1954, 1961, 1967, 1971, 1974, 1989 and 1998. So it ran a full spectrum of wages, had thousands of movies as competition yet people kept coming to see it.

That doesn't translate:

A movie ticket was $0.23 in 1939, and minimum wage was $0.28.

A movie ticket is $8.34 today, and minimum wage is $7.25.

That means that a ticket was less than minimum wage, and a ticket is now more.

 

29 states and dc have a higher minimum wage than the federal minimum. that wasn't the case then.