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To: robnhood who wrote (88529)	4/2/2001 9:49:03 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

>>I doubt very much that people are any happier now with their increase in material wealth. << LOL! When I was a kid, black women were housemaids and black men did yard work. They lived in tar paper shacks and wore white people's castoff clothes. The kids didn't get new schoolbooks, they got the ones that us white kids ruined too bad to use the next year. They didn't go to college. Were they happier then? If you got most types of cancer, you died. If you had a heart attack, you died. That's overstating the case but it's basically true. Have you ever flown anywhere just for a vacation? Only rich people did that then. Have you ever been to Europe for a vacation. Same thing, only rich people could afford that. We're sitting here talking to each other using computers connected to the Internet. Back then, typewriters were mechanical, not electrical. No photocopy machines, mimeo and ditto only. No fax machines. Long distance phone calls cost an arm and a leg. It was so expensive to call from New Orleans to Biloxi that when we got home from visiting my grandmother we'd call her collect and ask for ourselves to let her know we got there and she'd refuse to accept the charge - that way we didn't have to actually pay for the call.-g- I think you guys have grass-is-greener-itis. Or maybe it was better for white men then, I wouldn't know.

To: robnhood who wrote (88529)	4/2/2001 10:20:38 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I doubt very much that people are any happier now with their increase in material wealth You've hit on a fundamental truth, material wealth doesn't make people happier, in fact the pursuit of money tends to make almost anyone miserable. Although, I agree with Blue about how people tend to look back at the "good old days" forgetting those things that were truly terrible. The problem in life is that with every thing that is good, there is almost always something taken back. Nothing comes without a price.