[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Food for thought. For all the knee-jerk lamenting about "globalism," this provides good perspective from the other side.

Hank

[TBP]

Well, that’s definitely income inequality.

[Paladin2]

Were there any ski-lifts in Montana?

[faithhopecharity]

As measured in today’s nearly- worthless toilet paper currency, perhaps.

[Steely Tom]

All Rockefeller’s money couldn’t buy him an iPhone.

Or get him an MRI or a PET scan.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

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.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"And no reggae."

Sign me up for a trip in the wayback machine!

[Squantos]

Paleo Diet .....:o)

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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.

[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.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

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.

[stocksthatgoup]

Money is almost worthless today compared to then.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

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.

[bgill]

Money vs. Technology. That’s comparing apples to elephants.

[Jimmy Valentine]

The author is full of it. False comparisons to things that did not exist then. The very wealthy had every convenience available to them. As an example, Biltmore in N.C. Is a Vanderbilt estate. Gorgeous gardens, a two story library loaded with books on a wide range of subjects, stables with riding horses, the house itself spacious, with steam heat in winter, large windows with excellent cross ventilation in summer. Fresh foods from the garden and milk from your own dairy. All tended by an army of servants.

[DH]

What was a dollar actually worth in 1916?

What is a dollar worth in 2016?

There is no comparison. One was worth something and the other worth nothing.

[Larry Lucido]

No bloggers, huh? I’m thinking.

Nah, I’m staying here. I can always use that invention called the ‘Off” button for Reggae and bloggers. :)

Good article.

[raybbr]

One of the most asinine things I’ve ever read.

[catfish1957]

Thank God most coon-asses are a lot smarter than this.

[ExCTCitizen]

Hank, the money J.D.Rockefeller had was backed by GOLD, today the money we have is backed by nothing. Today's $$$ is worthless.

That said, I like today better. I am looking for 2 things thou: 1) A 1915 Pope Hartford auto (rare) and 2) 35,000 $1 bills backed by gold (so I could exchange it for gold)

[chesley]

But you miss the entire point of having wealth.

It's not the absolute comfort and convenience in your life. It's about power and status and how you rate as compared to the others in your time and place.

What did Jesus say about the rich man?