Posted on 11/22/2017 5:51:13 PM PST by grundle
I am thankful for being a middle class person today instead of the richest person in the world 200 years ago.
I can have a real time conversation with someone who is 1,000 miles away.
I have light bulbs.
I can get from New York to California in hours instead of weeks.
Antibiotics will save my life if I step on a rock and cut my foot.
I don’t have to worry about getting smallpox, measles, or polio.
I can eat ice cream in July, without having to hire an expedition to climb a mountain to bring back ice.
I could buy an air conditioner if I wanted one (although I don’t actually have or want one. I live in Pittsburgh, and don’t think it’s necessary). But think about being a rich person living in Atlanta in July before air conditioning was invented – that would have sucked.
I can listen to just about any music, watch just about any movie, or watch just about any episode of just about any TV show, whenever I want.
My access to information online is bigger than any library that the richest person owned in the past.
I have a flush toilet.
I can take a hot shower whenever I want.
I don’t have to worry about my drinking water being infected with deadly bacteria or parasites.
My clothing is more comfortable than any that existed in the past.
I have zero problem with the fact that there are some people today who have thousands of times as much money as me.
I am grateful for what I do have. I am not resentful for the fact that other people have way more money than me.
I think even po folk today are better off than the richest back then.
Being middle class in the US today is better than being middle class and in many cases upper class anywhere else in the world today - something else to be thankful for....
What a shallow list.
Oh! The fruits of capitalism. Aren’t they great!
I can hop on an airplane and in less than forty-eight hours be anywhere in the world.
My wife or children won’t die during childbirth or shortly thereafter.
I am thankful/grateful for being born in the best time and the best place in human history.
As a history buff sometimes I think it would be fun to live in the past, but then I go to the doctor and I’m thankful for the technology of today. There’s something about leeches and laudable pus from a seeping wound that doesn’t appeal to me.
I’d trade the relative morality, decency, integrity & sanity of 200 years ago for all those creature comforts.
I can watch approved court jesters who are each worth in excess of $20million tell me that they are ‘down with the struggle’ on dozens of boob tube channels.
I would have been weeded out long ago.
I have been watching Lore on Amazon. One of the episodes is about lobotomies. Didnt know kennedy child was stuffed back in mother so she would be born yet..and that is what caused her problem.
That episode was hard to watch. Unruly kids got an ice pick to the brain through the eye
I can’t afford to go to the doctor and academics and media pundits would prefer to see all white men die off anyway.
This Thanksgiving I am especially thankful that fainting hillary is not our president.
Will be giving thanks too for the parents, grandparents, great grandparents, that started with so little and every generation until now have been able to give their kids just a little bit more.
With the government about to make the final move to set up the tax system to take everything extra that the middle class makes and ridiculous medical deductibles, lots of people are going to figure out that work is for suckers.
Dark days on the horizon.
The major difference not acknowledged in this list is that as the world’s richest man 200 years ago, even without the comforts of the modern age, you would be getting more and better tail than any middle class man today. Any woman you wanted. That eclipses everything else on the list.
Hm...I may have to quibble with you on that one. While true in most cases, the standard of living of the middle class in (for instance) Switzerland is certainly on par with the US.
“...you would be getting more and better tail than any middle class man today. Any woman you wanted. That eclipses everything else on the list.”
Lol. Ain’t that the truth.
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