Talk:Stephen Van Rensselaer

message: Just to note that I am working on a rewrite of this article. The workspace can be found here. If there is a large addition you'd like to make, please make it known here so I can include it in the rewrite (or go ahead and do it yourself in the workspace). Thanks. upstateNYer 23:10, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
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message: Peggy needs her own article. She is of enough relevance that she is allowed to have one, and being redirected to the page of her husband is also kind of gross. She is her own person, who had her own experiences, and did her own things. Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:681:300:C954:99B7:6DEF:B4A8:180 (talk) 04:19, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
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message: et al., the sources currently in the article that are used to describe the present-day wealth of Stephen van Rensselaer give unrealistic numbers.  For example, this page indicates that the wage for a private in the military was $6 per month back then.  If SvR's $10 million back then is equivalent to $300 billion at present then that $6 back then would be $180,000 per month today.  We'd have to conclude that privates in the military were paid very, very well back then.
Accurate approaches for computing the present value would use the 1) consumer price index (if available that far back) or 2) per capita GDP — the person-year calculation that I added to the article (but was removed) or 3) I'd settle for pretty much anything that says privates were paid substantially less than $2.2 million per year equivalent in present day dollars.  See here for a list of reasonable approaches; that site also has historical per capita GDP values. —Quantling (talk | contribs) 03:06, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I see.  The cited calculators used CPI, but the values near $300 million were mistakenly transcribed int the article as near $300 billion.  I've fixed the article.  Personally I prefer the per capita GDP approach over this CPI approach.  (FWIW, the former gives larger numbers than the latter.) —Quantling (talk | contribs) 03:14, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  You are correct. Billmckern (talk) 22:08, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adjusting dollars from 1839 to present