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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (61271)	3/23/2005 4:03:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Elroy, by definition, the middle class did not have servants. The middle class in the norm. That's half the population. Quarter of the population is upper class. Quarter is lower class. Not all the lower class could do all the work, so it's obvious that not all middle class [or even a small fraction of them] had servants. In fact, none of them had servants. It's the upper classes who can afford servants. <Middle class families used to have servants to do their daily chores (cooks, maids, butlers, drivers, and gardeners). > I'm middle class and don't have a cook, maid, butler, driver or gardener. Though when living in London and working for BP Oil, the rented house came complete with gardeners. My driver was the railway locomotive driver. My wife was cook, maid and mother of 4, while I earned the money. Elroy, you obviously misunderstood what I wrote. I didn't say wealth needs to be concentrated, though of course people who are capable to greater or lesser extents do concentrate it to a greater or lesser extent. I've concentrated a Tonka Truckload of it after decades of effort. Those who preferred to eat out, drink, spend and be merry did not. <People used to be waited on hand without doing anything useful, but jealous people took this from them by force.> Property used to be a matter of war Kingdom, serfs, slaves and revolution, everywhere. The kings did have hand and foot waiters. We are discussing a modern world of voluntary trade, not ancient history of conquest. These days, everyone with money is waited on hand and foot by those who want their money and have talents for hand and foot waiting [or making Toyotas, cyberphones, coffees, aircraft, roads, clothes, aquaculture etc etc etc etc ...]. Slavery has had its day. You can't bring it back. It's surprising you want to. If people learn how to do useful things, they'll be much happier. Taking wealth by force from those with it is called slavery [or tax in the case of mindless redistributionists]. "Work for me or I'll give you a good whuppin' or put you in gaol" is not a good way to create wealth, though people go on voting for more of it. Mqurice