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Thank you.

 

Here’s my take on things.

 

My Dad, born in 27 in rural Ireland in very modest circumstances, ie no hot water in the house, no bathroom (toilet at the end of the garden in a shed)  His father died of cancer in 41, untreated because in those days you just died of it.

Not far off a Victorian life really, which was the same as many people in Western Europe at the time.

So by the end of his life in 2014 (after working as a tractor driver for 40 years) he lived in a centrally heated house with all the modern conveniences, superb health care (triple heart bypass giving him 14 extra years of happy retirement) drove a very decent car (VW polo)

Effectively living in a way a millionaire could only dream of in the year he was born.

Surely no generation has ever had such a huge leap in real living standards than my father’s

If that is living in chains then so be it.

 

We forget how far the average life has improved in less than a hundred years.

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Thank you.
 
Here’s my take on things.
 
My Dad, born in 27 in rural Ireland in very modest circumstances, ie no hot water in the house, no bathroom (toilet at the end of the garden in a shed)  His father died of cancer in 41, untreated because in those days you just died of it.
Not far off a Victorian life really, which was the same as many people in Western Europe at the time.
So by the end of his life in 2014 (after working as a tractor driver for 40 years) he lived in a centrally heated house with all the modern conveniences, superb health care (triple heart bypass giving him 14 extra years of happy retirement) drove a very decent car (VW polo)
Effectively living in a way a millionaire could only dream of in the year he was born.
Surely no generation has ever had such a huge leap in real living standards than my father’s
If that is living in chains then so be it.
 
We forget how far the average life has improved in less than a hundred years.

That's an interesting point, I absolutely agree the conditions we live in have changed dramatically for the better during the 20th century.

In the recording, Noam talks about how industrial towns were designed and filled, from the earliest part of the industrial "revolution" and how that model was refined over centuries.
It's more interesting than an hour and a half of Hollywood
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That's an interesting point, I absolutely agree the conditions we live in have changed dramatically for the better during the 20th century.

In the recording, Noam talks about how industrial towns were designed and filled, from the earliest part of the industrial "revolution" and how that model was refined over centuries.
It's more interesting than an hour and a half of Hollywood
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Hollywood! Could think of nothing worse!
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