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Originally Posted by Lenny2
You were using that piece to say, in essence, that life was better for everyone back then, and I have many reasons to disagree with that.
In Russia and China everyone was middle class, they were socialist countries.
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In certain ways life probably was better back then. In certain ways being key.
It is the writer's point, I was simply putting it out there and basically putting my own agreement on the basic premise. When you look at that list of taxes that did not exist back then I find that it really is rather remarkable when comparing the two times in that light. That's all.
And you must be joking about China & Russia. In those countries everyone actually WAS either very poor or extremely rich, not that this is another point worth quibbling over. If your history books show it as different, by all means feel free to come back and produce all sorts of proof to support your opinion.
You are more than free to do so (which is more than you would enjoy had you lived in either of those other countries I'm sure)