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Episode 100: The Good Old Days Weren’t All That Good

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The Minimum Wage Worker Today

The average American 100 years ago had to work more than 100 hours to afford that three-minute phone call Today you can make it for zero. 98 percent of Americans own phones and almost a hundred percent of Americans around the age of 18 own Cell phones. Even the poorest of us are better off than the average of us were a century ago.

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