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On 'I Love Lucy' the characters routinely bet $50 dollars for all sorts of escapades while supposedly being working class in a NYC apartment. The rent for said apartment is given as $130 a month. Typing those numbers into an inflation calculator shows about a 9x difference. The $50 becomes $450. The $130 rent for the two-bedroom apartment comes out to $1200 in 2019. Obviously $450 dollars is WAY beyond "play money" these days for working-class people and the only $1200 two-bedroom apartments in the NYC area are a handful deep in the Newark, NJ ghetto. Unless the show, one of the first on TV, was out of touch with reality at the time, their relative purchasing power was much stronger than today's working-class urban residents.
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