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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Ya, that's insane. No vaccines, no real health care, no ability to travel very far, still pooping in a bucket(even if it is gold plated, it's still a bucket). Toilets hadn't been invented. Hot water? Indoor plumbing? I don't think people realize just how any everyday things we take advantage of didn't exist even 100 years ago.
Which opens up a more interesting question, would you rather be middle class now, or poor 100 years in the future?
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Yeah but with 70k in 1770 I’d be a god. That’s like a trillion dollars in today’s money.
You’d be reading about the 9 founding fathers instead of 8. And it’d be my head on Mt Rushmore. Just me. 4 times over.