“as a child used to own anywhere from forty to one hundred and sixty acres of land and a house with no debt while most in the current era will be lucky to own one acre. “
? When I was a child we had seven living in a 900 sq ft two bedroom frame house on less than 1/4 acre.
Our heating was kerosene. We had a wringer washing machine out on the back porch.
One small radio in the dining room and a three-party phone line.
I used to prop myself up in bed to hang my head in the window trying to catch a cooling breeze.
And you say we don’t have that much more now ...
It all depends on what you value. We didn’t even have a phone, you had one but lived on a quarter of an acre, had we lived on a quarter acre I would have really felt poor. What would the average person have now if not for government redistribution schemes? This nation as a whole has twenty trillion dollars of debt that we did not have back then. I don’t dispute that we are better off in some ways but we are far worse off in many ways. I won’t bother to list them all, you either understand or you don’t.