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To: Olog-hai

What century ago king dreamed of a CD player while listening to his Victrola? TV? FM Radio? Fresh fruit from Chile and New Zealand? Microwave oven? Refrigerator? Air conditioning? MRIs? Cellphones?...


6 posted on 08/30/2019 8:33:11 AM PDT by null and void (Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.)
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To: null and void

How many kings live in the tropics? Even those would go swimming for “air conditioning”.

Overseas trade was quite active less than (and even more than) a century ago, and that included the ice trade for refrigeration before electronic refrigeration.

Technology availability is not the same as living like royalty; it’s like what the proles were given in Nineteen Eighty-Four to keep them desensitized while the Upper Party lived in true luxury and relative freedom.


10 posted on 08/30/2019 8:42:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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