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user-inactivated · 450 days ago · link · · parent · post: “Entire areas of our shared history will never be known because no one will receive a living wage to uncover and study them.”
Well shit, were the salaries just bad? I grew up in the 90s and my dad was a STAH hubby, mum had a job working for the NZ govt and we were pretty comfortable. I think I just assumed money got you further 'back in the day' but hadn't considered people in tertiary education might have just been getting stiffed all along. I suspect I'm also forgetting that we lived rurally. A govt employee living in the wop-wops would get by pretty comfortably.