Sorry to be a spoilsport, but this reads very much like a column by George Will called Who wants to be a billionaire? Not so fast — I meant a billionaire in 1916.
Excerpt:
Boudreaux says that if you had Rockefeller’s riches back then, you could have had a palatial home on New York City’s Fifth Avenue, another overlooking the Pacific, and a private island if you wished. Of course, crossing North America in your private but non-airconditioned railroad car would be time-consuming and less than pleasant. And communicating with someone on the other coast would be a time-consuming chore.If in 1916 you suffered from depression, bipolar disorder, a sexually transmitted disease or other ailments, you would have had no recourse to antibiotics or modern pharmacology. Commercial radio did not arrive until 1920, and 1916 phonographs would lacerate 2017 sensibilities, as would 1916’s silent movies. If in 1916 you wanted Thai curry, chicken vindaloo or Vietnamese pho, you could go to the phone hanging on your wall and ask the operator (direct dialling began in the 1920s) to connect you to restaurants serving those dishes. The fact that there were no such restaurants would not bother you because in 1916 you had never heard of those dishes, so you would not know what you were missing.
Mark Levin talked about this essay on his radio show on May 10, 2017.
I'm not saying it's plagiarism, but I recall that The Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby was suspended for four months in 2000 for less when he wrote a column about the fate of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. I believe that suspension was politically motivated to remove Jacoby from the paper in the closing month of the Bush-Gore campaign, but Jacoby did not contest the suspension.
-PJ
I think most are oblivious to where we are as a society. Granted, we may not be as far as Sci-Fi but the quality of life is far beyond.
Not if the politicians got there way you couldn't.
Calexit spokesperson says they want to get rid of the middle class
I have antibiotics and probably won’t die from infection; they did.
We live far better than those 200 years ago.
Indoors,
off the bedroom.
The richest person in the world 200 years ago was probably one of these: Czar Alexander I of Russia, Muhammad Ali, khedive of Egypt, Mahmud II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, or American entrepreneur John Jacob Astor. I wouldn't mind having the power that each of them wielded.
This middle class list is for middle aged and older.
As a young man I would have looked for the ability to ride horse back, into the wilderness, and take my chances.
One of my favorite essayists / thinkers, Bill Whittle wrote this essay ten or fifteen years ago.
From “SANCTUARY (part 2)” “As an exercise in perspective, let’s briefly compare our civilization to another. Let’s compare our supposedly soulless, banal, hum-drum society to the splendors of ancient Egypt.”
You can find it here...
http://web.archive.org/web/20050520232619/http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000126.html
Scroll down a paragraph till you get to the right place or read the whole thing, it’s well worth your time.
My incredible wife
Earned a comfortable retirement through hard work
Woke up this morning