Austin Hughes
speaker
415 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 19 Jun
Austin Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In 1995, in inflation adjusted terms, it was around 15,000.
So we're buying twice as much here.
Okay.
Inflation, you know, again, there are so many moving parts in terms of this that obviously inflation has gone, the price of some items, housing in a particular case, that has changed dramatically.
But other items have come down.
You know, I'm old enough to remember the standard flight to London being around £2.
I think it was 208 punds back in the late 80s.
That'd be somewhere close to 600 euro now, you know.
Open back to America for that now.
So, you know, it's a very different sort of set of circumstances.
Yeah, this is a real sore point of mine, that economists tend to talk as though the average explains everything.
The reality is circumstances vary so widely.
But in terms of that sort of dispersion, a lot of it is part-time.
Now, probably in some instances, part-time is forced because of childcare and other sort of issues, commute times, etc., and that.
But there is also the option there.
It wasn't as freely available in the early 90s.
It was more a take it or leave it economy.
And we had an unemployment rate back then of 12 percent.
Long term employment was about 7 percent.
So lose your job.
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