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gammison t1_jcwvoiq wrote on March 20, 2023 at 4:23 AM

Reply to comment by iv2892 in Nieuw Amsterdam around 1662 - currently known as New York City, United States by MidnightCh1cken

I mean he was renting a very large house and inflation doesn't mean a 1:1 correspondence when real prices of goods got cheaper with mass production and there's other economic phenomena going on.