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You forgot an adjustment. Julia Roberts was born in 1967, not 1950. 1950 was simply the first numbers I could find - and enough to show that $1 is off by at le
by eesmith 4y ago
You forgot an adjustment. Julia Roberts was born in 1967, not 1950.
1950 was simply the first numbers I could find - and enough to show that $1 is off by at least a couple of orders of magnitude.
- HWR_14 4y agoThe numbers are pretty irrelevant. You are focusing on an example (not even one I proposed) instead of the point being made. Not that it's my point. But I do recognize that medical costs have skyrocketed.
- eesmith 4y agoBecause I don't think the point you suggested is a likely explanation. Why does the author wish to imply Julia Roberts' parents were so poor they couldn't afford $1? Coretta Scott King paid off the bill as thanks for her parents' kindnesses towards black children in Atlanta. Is $1 - about $30 now - really that big of a thank you in 1967?