• Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    The math is not right. Percentages don’t multiply like that.

    A change from 0.25 to 7.25 over 71 years means an annual increase of about 5%. That 5% annual change, starting with $7.25 15 years ago, would take us to around $15 today.