> A $100 is basically a tank of gas and a sandwich in CA.

I was just lamenting with my wife the other day about how "$100 is the new 20 bucks"

When I was a kid, mowing someone's yard for $20 was a really good payout. Kids my neighborhood last year were doing it for $70 lol.

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Sohcahtoa82 6 hours ago | parent [-]

$70!? How big are these lawns? Hell, I'd mow lawns for $70 each.

I wouldn't pay more than $5 for someone to mow my lawn, but then again, it's tiny at like 20x15 feet. I spend more time getting the mower out and putting it back away than actually mowing. Probably gonna replace it with just a bunch of wildflowers next spring.

	▲	conductr 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Your neighbors who pay a service with similar sized lawn are mostly paying them to drive to their house. The neighborhood kids can undercut them without that time inefficiency. But they only need to slightly undercut them, so they get a good payout (for them)
	▲	djtango 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Wage inflation and lawn shrinkflation