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Really nice to know that I'd have to work till I'm 60 to afford a house like that without taking on serious debt. What a time to be alive. I'm so grateful.

• anm89 6y ago
  The horror of having to settle for having all your needs met and living without insane luxury. Poor you. These houses would have been unaffordable to almost everyone at any time I'm history and two hundred years ago no amount of wealth could have bought you them at all. So what again is special about being alive now?
  • Aeolun 6y ago
    What is special about now is that you can have a simple house now, and have it be the envy of a kings’ from 200 years ago. The sheer comfort of living in a modern house is insane, regardless of the size.
    • sgt101 6y ago
      Add a decent modern mattress and a 60" TV connected to Netflix and bring the billionaire envy 150 years forward?
      • owenversteeg 6y ago
        Not the mattress. High quality handmade horsehair mattresses are what the absolute richest of the rich have slept on for hundreds of years and continue to do today in 2020. There's a reason they go for $100k, I've tried them.
  • LockAndLol 6y ago
    This "argument" of "things were worse then, now things are better" keeps coming back as if we're already living in a utopia. It's like saying "back then there was shit sandwich, but without bread and now we at least have bread". Wow, what an improvement. I'm too lazy to look up the name of the fallacy. But to answer your question about what's special about living now? In absolute terms: Nothing.