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Quote from: jackg on Today at 06:32:19 PM

We were at least? The data on life expectancy may be looking to go up but not for people poor since 2008, or for people who were fairly wealthy....

Quote from: jackg on Today at 06:32:19 PM

Do you know what middle class was here in the '90?
We were not poor but a car was out of reach, no color tv, waiting for lines for a fridge, a washing machine, the countryside had no phone landlines, no running water, no gas, only electricity and that only enough to power radios or light bulbs, plug in a s9 miner and you would leave a whole town in darkness Grin

Of course no internet, no personal computers, ..air conditioning? Lol!!!! Air conditioning? Grin

And yet we were not poor!
Compare that life with what a poor family has let's see who is having a more comfortable life.

At the beginning of the century, you were poor if you couldn't afford glass windows, now you're poor if you can't buy the newest Iphone! (pun!)

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That’s what I called living the future, from keyboard to touch screen, from 2008 to 2020, we changed from keyboard to touch screen. From can’t afford glass windows to can’t afford latest iPhone. From bicycle(in 90’??) to car, it’s future! That’s sound meaningless, clearly defending a losing envaedor. The thing that bitcoin exist isn’t to promote capitalism, I don’t know whether it’s still a thing today in bitcoin community, I believe it’s about fair distribution of wealth, especially distributing the fund to the knowledge based community, may be bitcoin was mean to help the person who was once highly knowledgable Ivy League graduate who after leaving school and getting trashed under a capitalism working environment where their knowledges has found no place to be utilised but they resort to office politics to survive the careers, where schools are often face with short of funding from the govt because you know people don’t value knowledge, they just want to destroy knowledges, burn the scholars alive so they can’t make noise, bury them alive. When I look at Vitalik Buterin, and I look at friedcat(username), I think they’re very knowledgeable and they know what they’re fighting for, the utopian society where knowledgable people are getting reward, and lazy people get punished, but I think it’s challenging task.