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If I can have dinners at expensive restaurants, yachts, manors, apartments throughout the world, unlimited access to high class prostitutes, the respect, defere
by forensic 16y ago
If I can have dinners at expensive restaurants, yachts, manors, apartments throughout the world, unlimited access to high class prostitutes, the respect, deference, fear, and love of the masses who stand in awe of my wealth...
rich in pretty much ANY time.
No matter what year it is it's always better to be on top. That's where most of the human pleasure comes from.
Xboxes and iPhones are really no substitute for being on top of society.
- endtime 16y agoSorry, but you sound like a shallow prick and possibly a sociopath. If I can see my (future) children grow up happy and healthy, keep learning my whole life, earn my living solving interesting problems, etc., that's not just quantitatively worth more than a yacht; it's qualitatively a better life. To answer the actual question, of 1973 vs. today, I'd take today. The Internet is, frankly, awesome. Not having the entire world living in fear of nuclear winter is also kind of nice. I don't think cryo firms like Alcor existed in 1973. Those are just a few things off the top of my head; I'm sure I could come up with a much longer list given time.
- forensic 16y ago>If I can see my (future) children grow up happy and healthy, keep learning my whole life, earn my living solving interesting problems If you're rich you can still do these things. Whether you're rich in Ancient Egypt or rich in 1973 you'll have access to this stuff.
- endtime 16y agoI don't disagree with you. I was responding directly to the person...to whom I was responding, who said: >No matter what year it is it's always better to be on top. That's where most of the human pleasure comes from. The second half of my comment addressed the 1973 question, and made it clear that it was doing so.
- flashgordon 16y agoWell I would have thought rich in 1973 would have been a no brainer. Not because of affording expensive things yada yada (ok thats a huge bonus too but not for me). But because having the (relative) wealth would mean having the luxury of choosing my job without having to worry about how the bills were being paid. Having the dough to invest in my passions (assuming one had them). Having the dough to invest in technology at the early stages! I mean yeah the internet is great now. But you could just as well ask, would you rather be rich now or middle class in 40 years time?
- endtime 16y agoDefinitely middle class in 40 years. I suspect 2051 will be as far ahead of us now as 2011 would be to someone in the 1940's or so.
- flashgordon 16y agoI suppose it could be worse. We could be "poor" in 40 years time! Again I mean poor in the vaguest sense. Which makes you wonder. What would the bums be like in 40 years?
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- foljs 16y agoYou sound like a prick more. Who gives a ff about your "future children".
- rbanffy 16y ago> No matter what year it is it's always better to be on top. That's where most of the human pleasure comes from. You know you will be happier if you enjoy what you have, not the fact you have and others don't.
- forensic 16y agoI wouldn't be enjoying what others don't have. I would be enjoying what I DO have. Which is the ability to pay others to do whatever I want. I want massages and blowjobs and chefs and chauffeurs and butlers and servants. Who doesn't want these things? A rich person can get these things no matter what year it is. A poor person will always be denied these things no matter what year it is.
- rbanffy 16y agomassages and blowjobs and chefs and chauffeurs and butlers and servants grow old very quickly.
- forensic 16y agoeasy to say when you have them if i get bored of blowjobs i'll do what other rich people do for fun - social engineering. Tinker with the lives of the little people like the peons they are.
- foljs 16y ago"easy to say when you have them" Eh, that was exactly his point.
- foljs 16y agoMassages and chefs and chauffeurs and butlers and servants, maybe.