>>716198056
Median home 1970: $23,000
Median home today: $420,000

1oz gold 1970: $40
1oz gold today: $3410

Big Mac 1970: $0.45
Big Mac today: $6.72

Minimum wage in 1970 was $1.60.

You'd have to make $29.2/h today to match the MINIMUM WAGE of 1970 in home purchasing power.

You'd have to make $136.4/h today to match the MINIMUM WAGE of 1970 in gold purchasing power.

($23.9/h to match Big Mac purchasing power.)

>>716198232
The image is not denying the migrant is bad for the worker, it's pointing out the real problem is being ignored (shareholders, creditors, overpaid executives, and rent-seeking property owners taking all the money that workers generate)

>>715668485
You make a livable wage by forcibly lowering the cost of housing and food, not raising wages to infinitely make mortgage creditors and landlords richer.

If housing and food was free (a completely feasible task, easily, if we wanted to), then a livable wage would be $0.