Clodfobble |
10-21-2011 07:53 AM |
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Thanks to the innovations of entrepreneurs, today in America, even poor people have clean water, TV sets, cars, and flush toilets. Most live better than kings once lived—better even than the middle class lived in 1970.
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I'm going to guess this silly statement hinges on the plurality of cars? Because a middle class family in 1970 certainly had one. Often the only reason they didn't have two was because the mother stayed home and didn't need one. And while a middle class family may or may not have had a television in 1970, that wasn't because they were too poor to afford common consumer goods, but because TVs were contemporary high technology. Unless the poor people of today all own iPhones, it's not comparable.
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