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metadat
on Feb 9, 2023
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The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment (2020)
The cost compared to the 1960s seems to be much higher. Even for "people with money".
0xffff2
on Feb 9, 2023
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It really isn't though. Yes, the GA fleet is extremely old, but the inflation-adjusted cost of a PPL is pretty much exactly what it was in the 1960s.
kevin_thibedeau
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Inflation adjusted wages aren't.
cdot2
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Median per capita inflation adjusted income has steadily risen since WW2
https://united-states.reaproject.org/analysis/comparative-tr...
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on Feb 19, 2023
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It feels like it hasn’t because of real estate and other baseline things that have inflated a lot.
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