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How cheap was everyday life 19 years ago?
“Everything used to be cheaper,” they like to say and often hear. The star has calculated how expensive life used to be.
Everything becomes more expensive! The feeling is right first. In fact, the prices for many offers have increased in recent years.
19 years ago, RTL recorded prices for many things in everyday life. At that time, employees of the broadcaster stated in random samples, which, for example, had to pay for a kebab or a cinema card.
This year, these samples have been repeated in the same places in the Cologne area. The results enable a historical price comparison apart from statistical surveys by a federal authority.
The mistake of the Germans
Everyday consumption has become more expensive. At the same time, wages have also increased. From 2006 to 2024, the Germans were able to look forward to a gross earnings plus of an average of 59 percent. Consumer prices have only increased by 44 percent in the same period.
“The development of the past few years has actually been positive. The merits have increased more than consumer prices,” confirms Kathrin Kann, head of the “Significance, over -indebtedness” at the Federal Statistical Office in conversation with the star.
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Doctors
Medium content of all employees: 98,750 euros
Example job title
Senior doctor: 130,750 euros
Specialist: 97,000 euros
Doctor: 91,250 euros
Assistant doctor: 65,250 euros
Dentist: 64,500 euros
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Her colleague Karsten Sandhop, head of the department “Methods and Communication in Price Statistics” at the Federal Office, explains why we do not notice that as a consumer: “In relation to the price development, there is a psychological effect that people perceive losses more than profits. ‘Pain’ about price rising is greater than the joy if something has become cheaper.”
Many Germans are not only convinced of ever increasing prices. They also think: “The gap between rich and poor continues to differ.” This means that income is in Germany. In fact, it has been quite stable since the nineties – but at a high level. The same applies to the assets that is even more pronounced and also hardly decreases. The poverty rate has increased in recent years, which means that more and more people are affected by poverty.
However, these big considerations will probably make very few when they are back at the kebab shop or at the swimming pool checkout and think: In the past, everything was so much cheaper.
In the video, RTL shows the price comparison on Tuesday from 10:35 p.m. on TV and on RTL+. The star belongs to RTL Germany.
Source: Stern
