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EC - if you think the average man hasn't benefited from economic growth you are living in cloud cuckoo land. Living standards are almost immeasurably better than they were 30 or 40 years ago.

Look at life expectancy, households with access to a car, real average income per capita, proportion of household budget spent on food, overseas holidays - any bloody measure you can think of really - and the average bloke has a far better time of things now. And what's that down to? Economic growth, all courtesy of those dreadful capitalist bastards that everyone loves to hate.

[QUOTE="BennyB, post: 2518752, member: 65563"] EC - if you think the average man hasn't benefited from economic growth you are living in cloud cuckoo land. Living standards are almost immeasurably better than they were 30 or 40 years ago. Look at life expectancy, households with access to a car, real average income per capita, proportion of household budget spent on food, overseas holidays - any bloody measure you can think of really - and the average bloke has a far better time of things now. And what's that down to? Economic growth, all courtesy of those dreadful capitalist bastards that everyone loves to hate. [/QUOTE]

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