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I would have liked to have lived in the late 1800s in the US. I believe that people were freer then. It was dog-eat-dog, but I'd throw my hat in that ring. Fortunes were made then. Industries were born. Cost of living was low, taxes were low, and America was moving forward.
Working conditions were somewhat similar to what you'd find in a poor 3rd World country.
There were no weekends, 40 hour work week, health insurance, etc, etc.
Anybody could make you work 90 hours a week if they wanted to.
If I could be born into an affluent family, I'd like to have been born in the 1910's. I like the fashion, the music, the mannerisms and customs,etc. Women dressed great and had great hairstyles. Men wore suits and hats. I would have loved to have seen the advent of movies and hollywood, of aviation, my chosen vocation, of the roaring twenties, etc. To have been alive during the great depression and WW2 would have been something also. Horrible times, but times that would have benefitted character and convictions, taught the pain of sacrifice and benefits of being frugal.
During my lifetime I would have seen revolutions in medical science, tge advent of the space age, the boom and romance of flying.
Now if I were born into a working class family, well I'd pass. Life was no doubt very difficult for them. Little in the way of worker rights, ie unsafe work, long hours for little pay. Poor health, probably not going to college and being drafted into war, suffering greatly in the depression, etc. Racism, sexism, etc also would have had more of an impact.
I would have liked to have lived in the late 1800s in the US. I believe that people were freer then. It was dog-eat-dog, but I'd throw my hat in that ring. Fortunes were made then. Industries were born. Cost of living was low, taxes were low, and America was moving forward.
Oooh, not me!
Kids were working at age 8, some supporting families. There was little or no education for the masses. Long hours, no weekends, no health care. No electric; well water outside.
I was born in the '50's.I think it is the best seeing our country come out of a Great Depression and evolve into a country of people having the best and able to make a living to afford it.
Then seeing it make a complete turn around back to a Depression time.
I took advantage made a good living Retierd early.Feeling sorry for my educated Kids trying everything to hold on to what they have worked so hard to get.
I have a feeling its going to be an interesting 20 or 30 years if I should live that long.
quote=malamute;12521745]Well - for some but for many today means life in prison. I'm not sure the hard work back in another age was really worse.[/quote]
Are you really trying to compare time in prison to slavery??? Is your appreciation of the suffering of black people in this country that limited??
400 years!! Stacked on top of each other in cargo holds of slave ships....covered in feces, urine and vomit from one another. Doused with stinging salt water to be cleaned off.....some jumping over board to be eaten by sharks that always followed those ships!
Even in prison, you have appeals! You still get three hots and a cot. You get cable TV and the ability to work out in the gym! You get your porn and sexualvisits from girlfriends or wives!! You can get an education....learn a trade. Worship. Some are even trying to get criminals voting rights.
And guess what....if you have LIFE as your sentence, that means you did something RRRRREEEEEEAAAALLLY heinous and you deserve it!!!
I didn't mention the lynchings and Jim Crow laws after slavery. The forced rapes of our women and men! Broken families.....no schooling....
Again....these are the good times for us.
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I wish I had been born in another country.
France...Canada....any country that has a better health care system than us and offers better economic prospects.
Is that why Canadians fly down here for emergency surgeries??
Any time from 1800 to 1930. The clothes were better, and so were the morals (overall). Times were simpler and people enjoyed what they had. Unfortunately, I would have died in childbirth and my child would have died from respiratory problems, so probably best that I was born in the '60's.
Any time from 1800 to 1930. The clothes were better, and so were the morals (overall). Times were simpler and people enjoyed what they had. Unfortunately, I would have died in childbirth and my child would have died from respiratory problems, so probably best that I was born in the '60's.
Is that why Canadians fly down here for emergency surgeries??
That's like saying that Italy has the best cars in the World (Ferrari) and italians shouldn't buying "foreign cars"
I bet 99% of italian can't afford to buy a Ferrari.
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