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Where can you rent on ~$50 a day, and still have money left over for food and car payments (necessary for that job), let alone things that a regular worker coul
by SamBam 4y ago
Where can you rent on ~$50 a day, and still have money left over for food and car payments (necessary for that job), let alone things that a regular worker could afford in 1900?
- phonescreen_man 4y agoPretty much most of northern England, outside London a lot of people get by on 18k a year salaries
- IanCal 4y agoYou may be heavily overestimating lifestyles in 1900. Here's a very interesting book written in the early 1900s looking at families with a father in solid employment, ~~renting for~~ (edit - living on) about 1 pound a week in London. They're poor, but not the poorest - not in the workhouses. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58691/pg58691-images.html#CHAPTER_IV https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58691/pg58691-images.ht... Regardless of precise lines, I recommend reading this as an actual look (mixture of descriptive prose and figures & stats) at life for people of the time.
- luckylion 4y agoI also recommend Orwell's The Road To Wigan Pier for a report on workers in northern England in the 1930s and their living conditions (and the second part on why Socialism isn't being embraced in the UK, but that's a different topic). I'm pretty sure that's also easy to achieve today.
- xyzelement 4y agoA regular worker hasn't seen a car in 1900 and lived in a tenament with 4 generations crammed into a room. You can afford that on 50 a day if you wanted to live that way. That's my point, we don't want to live that way so we work more.
- SamBam 4y agoYou literally said "work as an Uber driver," which is why I said car payments. They're necessary for the job. If you want to keep it in 1900's-speak, I could say "afford the payments on the overalls you need at the factory," but the idea would be ridiculous because the factory would provide the overalls.
- xyzelement 4y agoOh gotcha lol ok. Change that to "drive THREE hours Uber using someone else's car and give them a third of the pay for the use of the car" if that helps you connect to the idea better