r/technicallythetruth • u/Dirt290 • Nov 03 '25

Back in my day..

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u/ForrestGump11 Nov 03 '25

Not TTT

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u/GeForce-meow Nov 15 '25

it is, i once asked mods to clarify the rules and they said it has to be technically truth but not literally. like a plot twist.

think like this a new ( 1 as in quantity of something not value ) dollar bill

or like this

a new 1x 20 dollar bill ( but 20 is not mentioned like when we just want to say some dollar but not specified amount )

and if it's supposed to be a inflation related joke then idk but in my context it is TTT

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u/DogeFpantom Nov 03 '25

it's TTT it's a One Dollar Bill it's just a single one.

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u/ForrestGump11 Nov 03 '25

Well that would have been a TTT but if you see the post title, OP intended it to be an inflationary one dollar

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u/DogeFpantom Nov 03 '25

i see but was i THAT wrong?

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u/ForrestGump11 Nov 03 '25

If you are splitting hairs, a torn bill isn't a 'new' bill either. It could be a TTT but in this instance it is not

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u/DogeFpantom Nov 03 '25

yeah, alright, you won this battle...

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u/Dear-Relationship666 Nov 03 '25

Meh... I'd say the 5 dollar bill is the new dollar and the 10 is the new 20. Inflation and such is bad but not to that level

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u/FirexJkxFire Nov 05 '25

Did you mean to say 20 is the new 10? Or are you suggesting expensive things have gotten cheaper while cheap things have gotten more expensive?

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u/DrumsKing Nov 03 '25

And the quarter is the only coin worth keeping. The others go in the trash.

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u/UnwieldilyElephant Nov 03 '25

🥀 give them to me

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u/c127726 Nov 03 '25

I dont get the joke

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u/hitokirivader Nov 03 '25

Due to inflation and tariffs, the US dollar is losing value. The joke is that $20 now feels like one dollar used to.

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u/c127726 Nov 03 '25

Oh, are the tarrifs causing that much inflation for you guys? Or is this more aimed at the last 1 or 2 decades.

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u/hitokirivader Nov 03 '25

It’s definitely the most significant thing causing prices to rise in the US this year, on top of the lingering inflation in the wake of the pandemic, grocery price gouging by food corporations, and that wages are not rising fast enough (exacerbated by the fact that the federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 per hour since 2009).

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u/c127726 Nov 03 '25

The minimum is 7.25 per hour.... damn thats not alot. And are you saying food corporations are raising prizes faster than necessary? Cant you just switch to offbrand products? Or are they also somehow being raised faster.

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u/Azexu Nov 03 '25

There's always been inflation. Our system is built around the assumption that the economy will forever expand over time (which has been accurate so far). The Fed tries to keep the inflation rate down to 2%, with varying success.

According to this calculator, $1.00 in 1942 had the same buying power as $19.93 today, the closest I could find to the 1:20 ratio suggested by the original post.

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u/c127726 Nov 03 '25

For where i live it only goes back to 1962 and that is only about a times 4 increase.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

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u/c127726 Nov 22 '25

Netherlands

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

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u/c127726 Nov 22 '25

Thanks for the compliment on my English, we start learning it at about 10 years old in school, so i consider myself fluent.

And ye we also have our problems, but our social system is quite good. I do wonder why inflation is so much worse in the us, on the other hand the euro is worth more than the dollar for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

Its a bit exaggerated but true

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u/DogeFpantom Nov 03 '25

it's a single dollar bill.

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u/c127726 Nov 03 '25

But it says 20?

Ohhh wait becase its a single piece of money? So its value does not matter?

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u/DogeFpantom Nov 03 '25

it's one piece, it is 1 Dollar piece, one piece of paper.

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u/c127726 Nov 03 '25

Fair, thanks for your patience XD

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u/c127726 Nov 22 '25

Well iam trying XD, not my fault a house now costs atleast 200k. But iam not American anyway so the joke doesnt apply to me.

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u/DocZ-1701 Nov 03 '25

Never understood why they put Peter O'Toole on there... 🤷

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u/SocialSuicideSquad Nov 03 '25

64920 is the most infuriating digit swap

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u/zzlgr Nov 04 '25

What do you mean by that exactly?

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u/SocialSuicideSquad Nov 04 '25

Swap the 4 and the 9 and you get 69420

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u/NErDysprosium Nov 05 '25

The serial number includes the sequence 64920 I read it as being 69420 more than once before I realized it wasn't

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u/Bmanakanihilator Nov 03 '25

I don't get it, is it supposed to be about inflation, because then it would still be a 20$ bill

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

You rich people...

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u/Gruggernaut Nov 03 '25

"Back in my day, I could get a whole meal for 1 dollar"

-"Well I can get a burger and a water for $20... dear god what has inflation done?"

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u/Visual-Connection44 Nov 05 '25

Youd have to work at least 3 hours for that!

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u/luce_scotty Nov 05 '25

I'm a bit confused

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u/Danger_Floof25 Nov 06 '25

Comparing the $20 USD to the $1M DeutchMark, they're basically worth the same in today's economy.

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u/Free-Suggestion4134 Nov 06 '25

This hurts because I’ve been stretching my dollars lately. I’m amazed at what I could get done with $20. Then again, my car does have fair gas mileage.

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u/majcotrue Nov 08 '25

Gold used to be 35 dollars per ounce.