Read the lyrics...

>On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree

>On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me Two turtle doves, And a partridge in a pear tree.

You're clearly getting both things on the second day. And so on as the days continue.

There's no time travel you're just getting duplicate gifts every following day.

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the song doesn't say how long the maids were hired for, so the only way we can interpret being given any of the humans in the song is slavery. The prices for the birds aren't 1 hour of work, it's for ownership.

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This data is profoundly ugly

>On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me >A partridge in a pear tree

>On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me >Two turtle doves, >And a partridge in a pear tree.

>On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me >Three French hens, >Two turtle doves, And a partridge in a pear tree.

How do you interpret that and NOT have it be cumulative?

I would like to see what the cost of these items would have been during the original time period of the song!

This is why it's horseshit to pick a number. Peg it to CPI and be done with it. Just like social security, Medicare etc.

Wow I thought the swan figure was bullshit until I looked it up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLZR9IJqcgc&ab_channel=AnOldYoungGuy

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OK, that makes sense. I remember learning that some of the properties that make Gold extremely valuable are it’s high ductility and malleability…. but that also allows it to be spread very thinly across cheaper materials!

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And swans cost nothing if you have the balls to catch them at the park.

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It's interesting that no Brasilians go to Spain. I guess it makes sense with the proximity of Portugal, it probably feels more natural to speak their native language but I would have thought some percentage would still go there, especially with the large population of Brasil and the poverty/overcrowding in many places.

To me the song is cumulative considering the day is said at the beginning of each verse.

On the fourth day: four calling birds, three French hens...

PNC Bank uses the federal minimum wage to calculate the cost of an unskilled farm laborer. Sadly, some farm workers earn even less than that.

The numbers come from PNC Bank. I used their numbers since they have a whole system put together.

Some minimum wage jobs aren't designed to support someone living solo. I live in Washington DC, where the minimum wage is north of $16/hour. That makes sense here. But it's still not enough to buy a studio apartment.

I encourage constructive feedback, so thank you. And don't bash your own skills. I started my journey in data science by reading Visualize This. Skip ahead a decade and I run data science for a corporation.

Right near FTX that crypto ponzi scheme, IC is a gig ponzi scheme.

FTX is worth zero and Instacart will be too.

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Dollar for dollar, you can’t beat Ryobi

Go to the Public Garden in Boston, you can just take them and nobody says anything.