The majority of Americans are paid less today than ACTUAL SLAVES were. See below.

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Feb 1971, Gold $35/oz, US Minimum Wage raised to $1.60/hr.

= 4.57% of an ounce of Gold for 1 hour of work, 21.88 Hours of work earns 1 oz of Gold. Minimum wage full time Job earns almost 2 ounces of gold in 1 week. Almost 100 ounces in a year.

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April 2025, Gold $3200/oz, US Minimum Wage $7.25/hr.

= 0.22% of an ounce of Gold for 1 hour of work. 441.38 Hours of work earns 1 oz of Gold. Minimum wage full time job earns almost 1/11th of an ounce of Gold in 1 week. Almost 5 ounces in a year.

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Actual slaves in the 1800s were sometimes allowed to put themselves up for hire! Let's compare how much they were paid in those cases.

"Wages varied across time and place but self-hire slaves could command between $100 a year (for unskilled labour in the early 19th century) to as much as $500 (for skilled work in the Lower South in the late 1850s). Skilled cabinetmakers and joiners could sometimes earn as much as white workers; a select few could even afford to buy themselves out of bondage."

Source: https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/slave-labour/

In the 1800s Gold was $18.99/oz. While unskilled slaves could be paid $100 - $200 for an entire year. That works out to 5.26 - 10.512 ounces of Gold per year, today worth $16,850 - $33,701. While a skilled slave would earn the equivalent of up to $84,252 today.

If you work 40 hours a week for 50 weeks that's 2000 hours.

$7.25 an hour times 2000 is an annual income of $14,500.

Full time minimum wage earners in 2025 are paid less in a year than unskilled slaves were in the 1800s.

While median income earners depending on source earn between $60k and $80k in 2025. Which is less than skilled slaves could earn.

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