Not adjusting for inflation makes it look completely stupid.

There's one good effort - comparing a car to the salary of a car-worker. But it only has half the comparison (what are today's car workers earning?). That's the comparison that Marx would recognize: how long do the people making something have to work to buy the thing they made?

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alex43578 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is the implicit expectation that people making something should have some correlation with their ability to buy that thing?

The assembly-worker making a Civic and a 7 Series BMW are doing effectively the same thing, but the BMW assembler shouldn’t be getting paid 3 to 4x.

	▲	MarkusQ 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The reference to Marx and (implicitly) the labor theory of value renders the GP unserious. Just looking at the people doing the assembly (and not all the people in the supply chain), ignoring the time aspect (I doubt there's any product that costs more than one of the people assembling it would expect to make over the time it would take them to single-handedly create the product from scratch), and so on. It's a nonsensical position, meant to invoke a certain sort of feels, and nothing more.

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syel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Will review the numbers this week and see how I can update all numbers to adjust for inflation while keeping the satirical angle

	▲	pjc50 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"The summer job" card gets this exactly right and is a good example. I'd paste the text, but you've somehow disabled select/copy/paste, UX strike number two.