Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 06, 2021

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    Cactus-Pete  about 3 years ago

    Old sayings are never to be taken literally since most don’t make sense if you do.

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    Concretionist  about 3 years ago

    I can remember when that made sense because it COST me about a dollar a day (not counting rent) to live. Rent was another buck fifty.

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member about 3 years ago

    During the Depression, people were working for $6-10 a week. That might be when that phrase was coined.

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    jpsomebody  about 3 years ago

    Another day, another trillion dollars in debt.

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    nosirrom  about 3 years ago

    I got paid better. I used to get a buck three eighty.

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    Brian G Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Sailors in the 1800s were paid a dollar a day once the voyage was done and profit made, and since the days didn’t change much, the promise of another dollar was all they had to show for their time each day.

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    sandpiper  about 3 years ago

    According to lore, in the late 1800’s-early 1900’s, ranch hands were paid $30 a month and found. The 1894 Sears-Roebuck catalogue listed a full outfit of jeans, shirt, longies, socks, and hat for about $5. Boots were another $5. Nowadays, another day, another dollar might just refer to what’s left after the cost of living for that day.

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    Darwinskeeper  about 3 years ago

    Back when the Model T was a production vehicle, Henry Ford offered $5 a day. It was considered a really great salary at the time.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 3 years ago

    If I recall, before Honus Wagner became the greatest baseball player of his time, he hauled coal for less than a dollar a day. Late 1800s, definitely post-dates US currency.

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    e.groves  about 3 years ago

    “Another day, another dollar.” “Oh, you got a raise?”

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    rugeirn  about 3 years ago

    “The historian John Bach McMaster suggested that in the 1790s, ‘The average rate of wages the land over was… $65 a year, with food and perhaps lodging.’ Source: A History of the People of the United States, vol. 2, p. 617.”

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    The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Average salary for female teachers in Michigan in 1900-01 was $36.68 a month. That would be about $1.67 a day if they didn’t work Saturdays and Sundays.

    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000060034496&view=1up&seq=93

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    Thinkingblade  about 3 years ago

    Hmmm. I would guess that it was true in the early 1800’s …

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    Cozmik Cowboy  about 3 years ago

    Average annual pay for a US public school teacher in 1900 was $328.

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    Nick Danger  about 3 years ago

    No, people didn’t make anything close to that on average in North America before the establishment of the U.S….

    “Comparing the thirteen-colony average income per capita with the average for Great Britain (Broadberry et al. 2011) finds virtual equality in 1774: the colonial $69.1 (or £15.6) was about the same as Great Britain’s $69.5 (£15.7).”

    https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w19861/w19861.pdf

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    ChukLitl Premium Member about 3 years ago

    By old school silver weight that dollar is about $17.50, about what may have been “reasonable” for scutwork.

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    brucemcguffin  about 3 years ago

    In 1825 a common laborer in the US made $1/day, on average.https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89071501472&view=1up&seq=64

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    Riskfinder Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    For some of us, it’s “Another day, another 70 cents.”

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