Yeah I realized it might not be an adjustment to modern times, but some comparison between Dickens' and Austen's time?  Threw me for a loop because people usually are adjusting to today's dollars

I don’t think that’s what they intend but the note is confusing.

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But I think the point of their numerical argument is whether the poor making $30,000/yr today would swap with Mr. Darcy who by their metrics was earning an equivalent of about $15,000/yr.

I think the poors would swap with Mr. Darcy.

(Assuming I'm reading the chart correctly, which I'm not sure I am, given the strange footnote about 1798)

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But I think the point of their numerical argument is whether the poor making $30,000/yr today would swap with Mr. Darcy who by their metrics was earning an equivalent of about $15,000/yr.

I think the poors would swap with Mr. Darcy.

(Assuming I'm reading the chart correctly, which I'm not sure I am, given the strange footnote about 1798)