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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I give you climate change, but in every other respect every one in society lives like kings compared to our grandparents, food is abundent, we all have technology that is the stuff of science fiction, never in history has the life of the poor been as similer as the life of the rich.
The poor used to starve to death, now their poverty is symbolised by their morbid obesity, the term 'on the ropes' is a reference to a cheap form of accomadation from 150 years ago when people slept standing upright held in place by a rope, to be white and living in the UK or US is quite literally the best life any human in history has ever had, yes wages have stagnated but consumer goods are so cheap we throw out televisions and cell phones that 30 years ago cost a month or 2's wages, everyone does, not just the rich.
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But life is always relative to the the time you live in, not 100 or 200 years ago. Otherwise why stop there? Why not go back to cavemen? Why not go back to before humans existed? It’s a silly way to look at it. Rubecube is right and he actually from what I can tell is agreeing with Cliff in maybe the first time, ever? Even if he didn’t mean to?
Populism is a very real problem, and to pretend there is not some growing future catastrophic event as a result of a boiling point is head in the sand stuff. So yeah, Brexit should be a bit of a “lesson” even if the term itself is crude and even if the counter points are all well founded and valid too.