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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (13271)	7/27/2001 7:53:16 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Terrence take out the technological factor by not counting things that they didn't have then or counting them as the closest equivilent to what we had then and we are still much richer now. More people can afford cars now then could afford horse drawn carriages or early cars then. People have bigger homes now and a larger percentage of people are homeowners. People can buy more food or clothing or gold or guns or gasoline or pearls or diamonds or cross country train trips now then they could then. Household income is higher now then then not lower but even if it was lower you have to factor in the fact that households are smaller. Also technology should be considered. If I can buy more computing power for less money then I could a few years ago. (I own a 650mhz Duron that cost less then a thousand even with monitor and upgrades, and would cost less now, while my previous computer a Pentium 133 cost about $3k) then I am better off. Even if you don't factor the extra power of the modern system the cost is less then a third and that should count for something. Tim