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Originally Posted by Sid And I was showing that that has always be the way it is and the gap between the richest and the poorest in society has narrowed in as short a period of time as 100 years or so. If you want to think of things in terms of our own short lives that's okay, our children's lives are far more comfortable now than ours were. They have a TV in every room, computer games, computers, and all the gadgets technology has brought.
What do we do of an evening now? Have access to more information than can be taken in in 5 lifetimes never mind one. What access to information or means of entertainment did your parents have?
Going down to the pub of a Saturday night, reading the paper and watching the news, then getting payed a few quid a week and thinking themselves lucky if they could afford a holiday at Butlins.
So if you think in the short term that the amount of money you get has gone down, change the way you think and think in the long term and count your blessings.
I'm not saying there isn't a small minority of people who have the majority of the wealth in this country, I was just saying the gap is narrowing, which it is.
And if you think France is so good why not go and live there? |
Ye gods, you do speak like a tabloid with and fail totally to understand what others post don't you?
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I added to the debate by acknowledging that people are better off, but said why that was so and pointed out that a fairer society would see the huge concentration of wealth that is presently held in very few hands released to solve its ills. I used France as an example of a society where the problem was less acute.
Then your knee started jerking...
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