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Originally posted by Hwed
Before someone jumps on you about inflation, it's not so much a matter increasing cost for houses and cars (and other new things we enjoy these days, like internet and cell phones). The issue is value. Our homes and cars and gadgets are loaded down with things that seemed like science fiction twenty years ago, and today we take them for granted.
Heck, drive down a street in a poor neighborhood these days.... what do you see? A DSS dish on every roof and obese people talking on cell phones. We're hardly starving here. Our poor are pretty well off. 
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The poor in America today live better and healthier lives than kings did in the Dark Ages.