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Most Ordinary Americans in 2016 are richer than John D. Rockefeller was in 1916
Cafe Hayek ^
| February 20, 2016
| Don Boudreaux
Posted on 02/20/2016 9:40:43 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball
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Food for thought. For all the knee-jerk lamenting about "globalism," this provides good perspective from the other side.
Hank
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
Well, that’s definitely income inequality.
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posted on
02/20/2016 9:42:02 PM PST
by
TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
Were there any ski-lifts in Montana?
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posted on
02/20/2016 9:43:53 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
As measured in today’s nearly- worthless toilet paper currency, perhaps.
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posted on
02/20/2016 9:44:56 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
All Rockefeller’s money couldn’t buy him an iPhone.
Or get him an MRI or a PET scan.
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posted on
02/20/2016 9:47:04 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
Except that John D. Rockefeller’s descendants will be living off his money practically forever, just like his grandchildren and great-grandchildren do now.
In today’s money JDR was worth almost $700 billion. Nobody alive now is even close.
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
"And no reggae." Sign me up for a trip in the wayback machine!
To: who_would_fardels_bear
Yeah....I had the same reaction to that one. But I manage to avoid any imposition of reggae into my day-to-day life, so if some enjoy, let ‘em.
Hank
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posted on
02/20/2016 9:52:09 PM PST
by
County Agent Hank Kimball
(Trust Fund Donnie Trump thinks "Nuclear Triad" is a death metal trio.)
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
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posted on
02/20/2016 9:53:35 PM PST
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: <1/1,000,000th%
In todayâs money JDR was worth almost $700 billion. Nobody alive now is even close.
That’s right. I don’t think anyone in world history had been more wealthy than JDR.
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posted on
02/20/2016 9:55:41 PM PST
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
I am old enough to have lived without a lot of the comforts and conveniences he mentions. I personally don’t consider many of them to be necessities. I enjoy many of them but I could imagine living without them — again —even if I didn’t have Rockefeller’s fortune.
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posted on
02/20/2016 10:10:14 PM PST
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Blue Jays
I absolutely LOVE vacationing someplace with non-existent cellular coverage...and being able to honestly tell people that I will be absolutely unreachable for ten days. It is rejuvenating and wonderful.
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posted on
02/20/2016 10:19:22 PM PST
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
Hi there guy making fun of flyover country. Love Love Love your screen name. It is so snarky it is funny. It bit you in the ass, as it did your GOPe brethren. Your tears taste like nectar.
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
Money is almost worthless today compared to then.
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posted on
02/20/2016 10:54:00 PM PST
by
stocksthatgoup
(Trump for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
You seem a little bit unbalanced. This was a posting about nothing relating to the election.
Are you ok?
Hank
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posted on
02/20/2016 11:20:10 PM PST
by
County Agent Hank Kimball
(Trust Fund Donnie Trump thinks "Nuclear Triad" is a death metal trio.)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
I personally donât consider many of them to be necessities.Except for the medical advances, most of what the article discusses are not an issue, really.
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posted on
02/20/2016 11:20:20 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(People are idiots.)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Of course they aren’t necessities. Indoor plumbing isn’t a necessity, strictly speaking. The point concerns standard of living. All the things he discusses make like easier, more fulfilling and longer.
Hank
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posted on
02/20/2016 11:25:42 PM PST
by
County Agent Hank Kimball
(Trust Fund Donnie Trump thinks "Nuclear Triad" is a death metal trio.)
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
Under Obama, I AM LIVING like a 1916’s poor person, but I wasn’t that way before him.
I can’t even afford the price of a wooden barrel to wear when my pants wear out. Maybe I can borrow one of Michelle’s burqa dresses and make some clothes out of it.
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
That bad huh. How about the common wealth which didn’t exist then for everybody, if not only for the rich? Good sanitation? Food which you can count on not to send you to the grave except by gross overindulgence? Telephones? Internet? Television?
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posted on
02/20/2016 11:36:20 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: County Agent Hank Kimball
Just fine. Floating your resume?
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