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Originally Posted by Willy702
Please we have it better now than 1913 and its laughable to even try to argue otherwise. Yeah we create problems for ourselves because of our increased wealth, but go and look at what living standards were really like for most of the population back then. Many today may be temporarily in poverty if something bad happened but they could get out of it in time. In 1913 if you were poor you were going to stay poor and no amount of hard work would change it. Your kids werent going to be any better because you had to put them to work by the time they were 10 or 11. And complain all you want about medical bankruptcy today, but you get treated and live to fight more battles. You would have had no such luck 100 years ago.
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You really need a better, or at least some understanding of history, you have it backwards, 100 years ago you had all the opportunity in the world.
100 years ago you were free to do business and to run your life as you saw fit. The early 1900's were liken to the dot com boom when everyday people were becoming millionaires using innovation to take advantage of the new technologies of electricity and internal combustion engines. Just look at the Victorian homes built during that period, they are far superior in craftsmanship to anything built today.
In 1915 there were literally hundreds of automobile manufacturers, and as many oil companies to go along with them. The appliance business was off the charts with people inventing everything you can conceive to use the new power of electricity. 99% of these businesses were eventually bought up by mega corporations in order to monopolize industries much like what has happened in dot com and internet related industries leaving the former owners wealthy from just and idea and a little ambition.
Today the government has for the most part made it very difficult to run a small business or your own life without massive interference. Most activities in this country today in fact are illegal. By definition anything you need a license to do is illegal and only permissible by having a "license" or "permit" from the government.
Stop and think what that encompasses. It is illegal to travel by automobile without a license, it is illegal to do business, it is illegal to build a house, to get married, to leave the country, it is illegal to own a dog, it is illegal to have a parade, to broadcast on a radio, or to light a fire on your own property. The list goes on indefinitely. Even your right to work is infringed upon and is not possible without "voluntarily" getting a Social Security card and thereby agreeing to go along with a whole slew of contractual obligations including pledging everything you own to cover the debts of the US government.
In 1915 you could hold alodial title on your land meaning absolute title, today you are given a grant deed which only entitles you to use of the land, not real ownership. Bottom line is 100 years ago you were a free person living in a free country with every opportunity that entails; today you are a peasant without any rights living in a country where you must kowtow to government officials for permission to live your life. You are a wage slave with little to no chance to ever purchasing your freedom as has been the practice for slaves for thousands of years.
Keep lying to yourself and telling yourself you have it better now, in truth, it is all you have left.