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The meme is a humorous take on the Great Depression, a period of economic downturn in the 1930s. It states that during the Great Depression, the average American's income was only $1.38 per week, but somehow managed to pay 25% of that in taxes. The meme then jokes that if the average American's income was only $1.38 per week, then the average American must have been incredibly poor.

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2023-05-10T21:03:42+00:00

tesseract

W@? @RebeccaforWA The median annual pay during the Great Depression was 22% of the cost of an average home. Today's it's 14%. That means that pay relative to home cost made it easier to buy a home during the Great Depression than right now. This is absurd.