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What you've been talking about is a comparison of who is "better off" in two separate timeframes.

Even assuming your base numbers argument is accurate (it isn't), you refuse to acknowledge the peripheral improvements in living conditions, general health, sanitation, advanced technology, or any of the other myriad 'soft' factors, which determine how "well off" anyone is.

If you had access to a time-machine, a 25yo from 1971 would bite your arm off to be the same age in 2015. The last thing he'd be bothering his rear-end about, is there cost of his mortgage.

[QUOTE="Grasshopper, post: 2518827, member: 65342"] What you've been talking about is a comparison of who is "better off" in two separate timeframes. Even assuming your base numbers argument is accurate (it isn't), you refuse to acknowledge the peripheral improvements in living conditions, general health, sanitation, advanced technology, or any of the other myriad 'soft' factors, which determine how "well off" anyone is. If you had access to a time-machine, a 25yo from 1971 would bite your arm off to be the same age in 2015. The last thing he'd be bothering his rear-end about, is there cost of his mortgage. [/QUOTE]

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