I have found a site with an inflation calculator. In this site, below, you put in a dollar amount for any given year then it will translate it to a year of your choice.
CPI Inflation Calculator
I found another site that shows what people made in past years (though it looks like post 2013 years (around there) are based on speculation) in all the countries.
Here is the UK from 1980 to 2016.
GDP per Capita by Country | Forecast from IMF | 2020-2024 - knoema.com
Here is how it can work.
In 1980 the U.K. person made an average of $10,030.50 U.S. Adjust it for inflation and the 1980 amount was $17,589.89 in 1993 dollars and $29,243.78 in 2016 U.S. dollars. The actual 1993 average U.K. income was 18,440.80 U.S. in 1993 and around $43,000 in actual (near) present 2015-2016 (before the Brexit collapse). The 1993 (REAL and HISTORICAL)average per person income was 18,440.80 and adjusted for inflation, it would be $30,658.44 in 2016.
In the United States, here are the numbers.
In 1980 the average per person income was $12,575.6 and adjusted for inflation it would have been $22,053.08 in 1993 and $36,663.98 in 2016. The actual 1993 amount was $26,441.60 and 2016 will be about $56,000-$57,000. In 1993 the actual average per person income was $26,441.60 and adjusted for inflation, it would have been $43,960.03 in 2016. The actual amount in 2016 will be around $57,000 per person average.
NOW.
THE SECOND ISSUE.
We clearly have real wealth gains.
But why is there still no constitutional right to health care in the United States?
But why are there still only 300,000 shelter beds in the United States (and only 250,000 outside New York)?
Why is it that over 66% of homeless men in the United States can't get shelter (outside of New York)?
Why, in rich San Francisco (average income over $70,000 per person), re there 8000 homeless people but only 1000 shelter beds? Why is shelter impossible to get? Why must poor people sell drugs or their bodies to survive?
It seems that the U.K. was able to have right to shelter (London has 20,000 homeless people and all but 300 are in hotels! Only those who want to be homeless actually are there) and healthcare when their average income was only about $29,000 (1980) or $30,000 (1993) in 2016 U.S. dollars.
The world average income is about $12,000 U.S. in 2016 (not nearly as much as the U.K. was from 1980 to 1993 , but not so much less that the "affordability" of 1980 U.K. programs FOR ALL HUMANS should not be pondered), so perhaps we can begin to talk about worldwide standards that every human should have a right to?
Human rights are on the radar thanks to Bernie Sanders and his supporters. Hillary Clinton was the one person who stood between the idea of certain "human rights for all" Americans and its actual ballot box success. But the dream might not be dead as it is very much on the radar. I wish we would speak in non-nationalistic terms as opposed to just focusing on Americans only.
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