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Not at all....as soon as you post something I agree with, I'll be In Like Flynn.

I can't agree with any of your analysis on this though. When it's boiled down, it basically amounts to "Poor people are poor", which is hardly a revelation. The technical arguments put forward my Clivex and Benny that demonstrate that disposable income (and by inference, quality of life) is higher/better than in previous years, seem to me to be pretty-robust - and can be measured by things peripheral to mere money in the pocket (life expectancy/health, sanitation, medicine, ease of travel etc etc etc).

Equally, these arguments can't, imo, be blithely dismissed as "people taking-out loans" to fund their lifestyles. Whilst that may be true in some cases, it is not true in all cases - and seems to be another example of you taking a small percentage of the population, and passing it off as a valid measure of the whole. I just can't buy into that kind of argument.

<blockquote data-quote="Grasshopper" data-source="post: 2518809" data-attributes="member: 65342">Not at all....as soon as you post something I agree with, I&#039;ll be In Like Flynn. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I can&#039;t agree with any of your analysis on this though. When it&#039;s boiled down, it basically amounts to &quot;Poor people are poor&quot;, which is hardly a revelation. The technical arguments put forward my Clivex and Benny that demonstrate that disposable income (and by inference, quality of life) is higher/better than in previous years, seem to me to be pretty-robust - and can be measured by things peripheral to mere money in the pocket (life expectancy/health, sanitation, medicine, ease of travel etc etc etc). Equally, these arguments can&#039;t, imo, be blithely dismissed as &quot;people taking-out loans&quot; to fund their lifestyles. Whilst that may be true in some cases, it is not true in all cases - and seems to be another example of you taking a small percentage of the population, and passing it off as a valid measure of the whole. I just can&#039;t buy into that kind of argument.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grasshopper, post: 2518809, member: 65342"] Not at all....as soon as you post something I agree with, I'll be In Like Flynn. ;) :) I can't agree with any of your analysis on this though. When it's boiled down, it basically amounts to "Poor people are poor", which is hardly a revelation. The technical arguments put forward my Clivex and Benny that demonstrate that disposable income (and by inference, quality of life) is higher/better than in previous years, seem to me to be pretty-robust - and can be measured by things peripheral to mere money in the pocket (life expectancy/health, sanitation, medicine, ease of travel etc etc etc). Equally, these arguments can't, imo, be blithely dismissed as "people taking-out loans" to fund their lifestyles. Whilst that may be true in some cases, it is not true in all cases - and seems to be another example of you taking a small percentage of the population, and passing it off as a valid measure of the whole. I just can't buy into that kind of argument. [/QUOTE]

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