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Bygone Era (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 5 months ago (35 children)

So maths time...

If that cart is a weeks of groceries, it takes 1250 weeks of groceries to buy a house in 1980.

According to a 2024 USA today article the average family with kids spends $331 per week on groceries.

If the groceries per house ratio stayed the same, a house would be $413,750 in 2024.

The U.S. median home price was $412,000 in September 2023, according to Redfin.

I dunno seems pretty proportionate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It never said it was a week's worth of groceries.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Its a reasonable assumption. Most of the visible foods are bulky items that are not stacked efficiently to be visible to the camera.

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