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Originally Posted by valo403
Fine, but that's really not a point. If you were poor in the middle ages you were a hell of a lot worse off than you were being poor in 1944. So?
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So we live in a world of fiat currency where money is essentaially meaningless there fore the fact that the 1% have more money is meaningless.
What is meaningfull is the fact that the lives of the rich and the poor have never been closer together, we all have nice things, we all eat reasonably well, we all have a measure of security undreamed off 50 years ago.
150 years ago there was effectively no middle class, just rich and poor, the reason we live as well as we do is because of the system, not despite it.