<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I would have grabbed the gas station job. I spent a summer working in a warehouse for $1 hour (no benefits too). My boss’ boss, recognizing what I good worker I was, tried to get me to not return to Caltech and keep working in the warehouse. After all, my direct boss was making $60/week after 20 or so years.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ed<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 11, 2018, at 2:01 PM, Gary Schiltz <<a href="mailto:gary@naturesvisualarts.com" class="">gary@naturesvisualarts.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">And doggone it, I really *should* be back working in the gas station like I did in High School, for $2 an hour.</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:14 PM Nick Thompson <<a href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net" class="">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks, Barry, <br class="">
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But we Puritans think that currency inflation is one of the wages of sin, and if we spend less money, the world will returned to an earlier State of Grace. I still remember 25 cent gasoline on Ashby Avenue in Berkeley. That's what gasoline SHOULD cost. <br class="">
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Nick <br class="">
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Nicholas S. Thompson<br class="">
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology<br class="">
Clark University<br class="">
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This may not be any consolation, but these “dollars” you speak of, thanks to inflation, are what we used to call in our childhood, “dimes”.<br class="">
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On 10 Oct 2018, at 12:30, Nick Thompson wrote:<br class="">
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> I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal <br class="">
> injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul. But perhaps it's <br class="">
> time to suck it up?<br class="">
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