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would anyone like to discuss the meaning of the following statement?

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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    I don't misunderstand, I simply disagree

    TruckerT

    Any data? We're just back to your, "I don't accept..." point aren't we which is pointless to discuss.

    Plenty of people have offered up data to support my point. You just "simply disagree"
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Plenty of people have offered up data to support my point. You just "simply disagree"

    Post 20 makes a vague reference to some kind of figure, and post 26 mentions the unheard-of University of Gronigen.

    Apart from that, nothing...

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    Post 20 makes a vague reference to some kind of figure, and post 26 mentions the unheard-of University of Gronigen.

    Apart from that, nothing...

    TruckerT

    And your posts:
    TruckerT wrote: »
    Yes, but today's poorest 10% probably feel just as hard done by as the poorest 10% felt in 1713.

    Richness is not an absolute figure - it's a relative one.

    TruckerT
    TruckerT wrote: »
    You simply cannot compare 1713 with the present day using numbers.

    TruckerT


    TruckerT wrote: »
    You might as well try to compare the economy of another planet.

    TruckerT

    TruckerT wrote: »
    How many wannabe-capitalists would vote in favour of redistributing their diminishing wealth to the third world?

    TruckerT

    ps - in 1713, the were probably no heaps of rotting food to pick through...


    TruckerT wrote: »
    I am pleased to offer a challenge to the simplistic views of the majority of this forum's contributors.

    TruckerT


    TruckerT wrote: »
    Why would I look through the eyes of someone from 1713? Why not 1213? Or 13BC?

    I look through the eyes of 2013.

    TruckerT

    Where's your data?
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Where's your data?

    It's in the same place as yours.

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    It's in the same place as yours.

    TruckerT

    You started the thread! What are we meant to discuss?

    I'm with chewy.
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    You started the thread! What are we meant to discuss?

    I'm with chewy.

    The thread had quite a lot of reasoned responses until you (and Chewie) resorted to irrelevant personal attacks.

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • antrobus
    antrobus Posts: 17,386 Forumite
    TruckerT wrote: »
    The thread had quite a lot of reasoned responses until you (and Chewie) resorted to irrelevant personal attacks.

    TruckerT

    Ah so when you posted,
    TruckerT wrote: »
    I am pleased to offer a challenge to the simplistic views of the majority of this forum's contributors.

    TruckerT

    you didn't mean it personally, Good to know.
    TruckerT wrote: »
    Post 20 makes a vague reference to some kind of figure, and post 26 mentions the unheard-of University of Gronigen.

    Apart from that, nothing...

    TruckerT

    The University of Gronigen is a perfectly respectable academic institution that's been going since 1614. There are lots of things that are 'unheard of', but the Good Lord gave us Google for a reason.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    By todays standards even being mega rich in the 1700s would have been a pretty miserable and brutal existence.
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    It's a statement made by some kn0b who thinks slumming it means keeping the Bentley for more than one year and only having 2 main homes and 3 holiday homes.

    Looks like the green eyed monster is afoot...


    Socialists should work smarter not harder.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    antrobus wrote: »
    All I remember from 1713 is that there was a Treaty of Utrecht and we got Gibraltar

    Yes, they were good days.

    Some of the other things get a little hazy, but I did drink quite a lot in those days. :eek:
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
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